(Assuming QA = quality assurance)

If you are working on QA, part of your job is probably to analyze some logfiles and/or (test-)reports. If so, here are some ideas for you:

• check available reports for some abnormal data and list those reports for deeper investigation
• create some statistics, e.g. on errors
• create some summary reports
• add variety to your test-messages by dynamically exchanging some parameters prior to testing

Of course all depends on your working environment, but probably knowledge on File::find (for traversing through many files) and regular expressions (for evaluating their content) will be handy

HTH, Rata