I believe your uni thesis must have done a very good job. Otherwise, your tutor wouldn’t have incorporated part of it in the book.
In terms of that bug of your thread, as I said, it’s not worth going mad with it at all, even not getting minimum upset, especially after working hours. However, it is important to make it clear that you reported it and *record their response*. You are not a decision maker but the bug won’t come back to bite you either. Those indifferent altitudes may come from company culture. I used to work in a “intervene but no blame” environment.
For QA, it’s definitely a boring job for me. They run test suites, compile test results and write reports in most of time. This is why Angela later took over and focused on report writing when the product got stabilised.
Sure, writing test code and specify test cases are much of fun especially when you get “infamous” with those cocky designers but products come and go.
I actually called Graham just last week for a product of our common customer which his company provided the platform. The world is somewhat small …