Automation and DevOps are essential for re-energizing your QA career as they offer speed, clean builds, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development. Manual testing is no longer sufficient in today's fast-paced software development landscape. Understanding automation tools and their benefits is crucial for QA teams to guide developers with acceptance criteria and bring QA concepts to the table. DevOps is also vital, allowing QA teams to develop special server and data setup skills, reducing redundancy, and increasing confidence. To reinvent your career, consider talking to a recruiter, taking classes, and networking with peers. Networking can be intimidating but is a powerful tool for gaining mutually beneficial contacts, seeing tool demos in action, and making real-world connections. Allocating just three hours a week to these activities can lead to significant career growth.