The AI Testing Trap: How Japan's QA Engineers Are Getting Burned by the Same Efficiency Gains That Look Great on Resumes

You know that moment in a retrospective when someone says, "We shipped 40% more tests this quarter" and everyone nods like that metric actually means something? I watched this happen at a Tokyo-based SaaS company in early 2026. The QA lead was proud. Management was thrilled. The CI/CD pipeline was green. Six weeks later, a payment flow broke silently for 72 hours because nobody noticed the test suite was passing on bad assertions. The AI had written tests that checked "no errors thrown" instea...