New Position Unlocked: Senior SDET at AAA Life Insurance, starting Monday, June 15th, 2026!

I have two announcements: I've accepted a job offer as a Senior SDET role at AAA Life Insurance Company, and will be starting Monday, June 15th! And I have been nominated to be one of the volunteer Directors on the leadership board of the Software Quality Group of New England. Man, the job market is brutal! It took me four months of job searching in 2025 to find SELF Id when MassMutual outsourced its technology department. And it took me four months of near constant job searching in 2026 to find AAA Life when I was caught up in the second round of SELF's layoffs in the end of January. After throwing countless resumes into the void, submitting post after post on LinkedIn, experimenting with countless automation frameworks and programming projects on tjmaher.com, and spamming my entire LinkedIn Network (sorry about that!), and everyone I have worked with in the past twenty years as a software tester, desperately looking for job leads, it was a staffing firm working for AAA Life who…