I've been in quality longer than I've had the title for it.

I started my career measuring GSM signal quality in streets, metro stations, and airports. No "QA" in my job title — just the work. Finding problems, understanding why they exist, proposing fixes. It was already quality. It just didn't have that name yet.

From telecom field technician to analyst, from the European Commission to Immoweb, the title changed. The depth didn't — it grew.

At the Commission, I built test automation from scratch. Carte blanche, no roadmap. I even created my own YAML-based DSL when Gherkin wasn't the right fit. I delivered. But I was still executing someone else's vision.

The shift happened at Immoweb. Not on day one. I took time to observe, to ask questions, to challenge. Then I started to influence. I explained, evangelised, made decisions, worked across every team. I became someone who shapes how quality is practised in an organisation — not just someone who practises it.

That's the difference between a QA engineer and a Senior QA Builder. One executes. The other constructs.

"Testing is the science of doubt."

A mentor said that to me early in my career, during a calibration job that had nothing to do with software. It has stayed with me ever since. Doubt is not weakness — it's method. It's craft.

QArtisan is the training I wished existed when I started. Not a Playwright tutorial — because automation is a tool. The art is you. This is a place to develop the instinct.