Working in QA job for more than 10 years now. What are new trends in software industry? Are there any growth paths for QA profile? Which new technologies we should learn? Whether data science, IA and Machine learning will be helpful?
I'd be interested to see what testing cloud based services with automation looks like if I was gonna stay in QAA. If you're been in stasis for a decade, I'd look at docker, as well. Web and mobile testing is big, but companies with their own hardware offerings will still need automated desktop testing, so get into Selenium for web and Ranorex or TestComplete for desktop & mobile. Most things have their own reporting systems but you could probably create some value by making some tool that spits out a really attractive report on active tests for your company.
I was in QA before and slowly changed to development. I tried learning machine learning, app and web development, cloud technology outside my work. Did some small projects using technology i was learning. Also for my qa team used some of the newly learned skill to build useful tool. after 2yr from where I started as QA moved to a role mix of tool development and data analysis.