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If I were to jump at a Software Test Engineer job would this have the potential of pigeon-holing me into the testing and Q/A field?

It might. The QA->development boundary is possible to cross, but I haven't seen it done that often in the past mummble decades. However, test automation is a growing specialty within QA, and can involve Perl. (I've seen a fair amount of custom test automation done with Perl.) There's plenty of testing that people are motivated to automated, and yet which aludes the standard test automation tools.

Here are some pointers to info on careers in software testing.

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