Questions tagged [qa-role]
quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled
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What are the benefits of working in QA before working in software or research engineering? What about founding a startup?
So I'm wondering what the benefits of working in QA are before switching over to software engineering. I'm not too concerned about getting pigeonholed into the role of QA or anything like that.
What ...
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Architecutre of testing application for MVC application?
I am new to Quality Assurance and Selenium.
I had been looking for the best tool that can be used for automating our website (built in .Net in MVC framework).
Let me tell you the architecture of the ...
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How do I train a new manual tester?
We're looking to promote one of our customer service agents into a testing role. Right now they roughly go through our deploys in a staging environment prior to it going live. They've requested more ...
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Is security assessment a one-off task?
I visited a client today. The manager I was talking to wanted me to perform a security assessment for his team.
He put lots effort in saying "We only need one security assessment, as we need to tick ...
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Should I offer free security tests to my clients?
I have been engaging a client for two months now. They are a major electricity generation and distribution company.
For each project, I have got more than enough time to finish my SoapUI test cases ...
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Separate QA v.s. Scrum Team Member - How should QA be involved?
(Sorry it's a long question)
I have worked with several companies where QA Team is treated as part of the development team, and the QA team is involved in most of the activities within the ...
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Advice for an experienced manual tester for working with Ruby automation
I am manual QA engineer with 22 years of experience.
Now I need to work on automating a Web App in Cucumber/Ruby using Capybara libraries using Selenium to drive the browser (Firefox). Rspec for the ...
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How do I convince customers about the importance of code refactoring? [closed]
I affirm working on a software testing project for a customer. Due to a tight budget, I am the only one writing code here.
I am thinking of performing code refactoring at the end of this project, ...
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How to move my company and I from time-intensive manual testing to automated testing?
In my last position, I was working an upwards of 60 to 80 hours a week for an implementation where we were unable to implement much automation.
We were trapped by having too much manual automation to ...
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Should a senior QA engineer in Agile be expected to design/architect app features?
Can a QA engineer be actually expected to design and/or architect production features (not just automation framework)?
Especially if he/she has 12+ years of experience and in a team where other ...
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In need of wise peoples advice [closed]
I have been a tester for an eCommerce company startup in the travel business,
doing mostly Manuel testing which I found quite boring.
Over the last 8 months (my first job as a QA) and over these 8 ...
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Does DevOps really kill QA?
I have read an article about DevOps and it sparked my curiousity on what would be the role of a QA here. Though I would like to quote this from the article:
In the end, if there is a layer of ...
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How can QA regression test automation increase software development output?
I was asked to join a new project where the key objectives are:
Increase throughput and increase the quality of testing – will contribute to faster delivery of working software i.e. Agile WoW.
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Should QA be responsible for XML schema validation testing? [closed]
In our company, we use XML as a core part of the integration. We had a few occasions where our customer raised the concern that our XML's are not validated as per the schema. I have asked the QA team ...
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Considerations and suggestions for QA lead responsible for software testing and development processes [closed]
I am offered a position as a QA lead, which is a big-big step up for me.
I would appreciate some feedback, heads-up, suggestions, certify and considerations when tackling such a responsibility.
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What are the best metrics for evaluating a software QA team's performance? [duplicate]
What are the best metrics for evaluating a software QA team's performance?
I am looking for metrics similar to the ones below:
1. Test Efficiency
Test Efficiency = ((A-C) / (A+B))*100
A = ...
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What are responsibilities of being a Software Tester? [closed]
Is creating wireframes a part of Software Testing job?
I am a newbie in Software Testing.
What would be the possible responsibilities of being a Software Tester?
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Do we need a security officer to safeguard security of an application?
Currently I am thinking about how we can improve the focus of security testing and integration it into our development cycle.
Now I am wondering, do we need a CSO or Security Officer role? Or is it ...
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QA with application using chargeover
Our UAT uses chargeover for payment and other user management features. A couple weeks after we enabled automated testing about 50 test cases running about 2 runs every hour (can peak to 6-7 runs when ...
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Dealing with a slow growth curve in improving automation skills and how that affects ones' career
I have been working as a QA since almost ~5 years now. While I am one of the senior QA in my team, and have brought in other quality aspects to the table, my automation skills are still "beginner". As ...
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How to organize a QA Process/Department?
I am in a 10 man team, and I am the only QA in the team. I am new to the team and I have already put a QA process in place.
My process is this:
Development (will wait till the development phase is ...
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QA Access to QA is Being Denied [closed]
My QA team is being denied access to the QA environment. Yes, really.
Is there a precedent for this? A good reason? Is it as monumentally stoopid as I think it is?
Are there any resources or ...
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How to handle client if you found a high severity defect on the release date?
Suppose the product/application has to deliver to the client at 5.00 P.M, at that time you or your team member caught a high Severity defect at 3.00 P.M (Remember the defect is high severity), but the ...
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Interviewed as Java Dev but Hired as Lead QA. No QA experience. What do I do?
I was recently laid off from my 5-years-long tiny telecommute-based server admin / full stack software dev job almost exactly a month ago. Exactly one week ago I interviewed for a job at a small post-...
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Importance of test automation experience to advancing in QA departments
I am a test engineer with about 7 years of work experience. I am not an computer science / engineering graduate. I have done a post graduate conversion course that included a good mix of software ...
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What roles can QA Engineer play in project kick off meeting?
I've been working as QA Engineer since last 2 years.
Right now, my company is looking to change the QA process. They want me to be involved in Project kickoff meeting.
Can you please help me to ...
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How to start up a QA consulting business? [closed]
I am considering to try out starting up/building a Software QA freelancing/consulting type of business. I have some skills in automation, and know at least java/javascript language. I just don't know ...
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What should an automation tester create a script for?
I am a newbie in automation testing. The question that bothered me while creating scripts was:
Is it only GUI testing or do we also have to create Integration automation scripts? What would be our ...
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How can I (or a company) get fake Test Accounts for a Banking website without consulting the bank? [closed]
Anybody know how I can get a fake test account for a Banking Website without consulting the bank?
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A bug is fixed in Development environment but cannot be validated in Integration environment
As in many IT jobs we work with two environments:
Integration: for QA
Development: for developers.
Is there a general rule of thumb on what to do when for a bug the developer says it is ok in ...
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Real life example of software risk estimation [closed]
Can anyone explain a real life example of software risk estimation?
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What should I learn next as QA
I have been working as a software tester for the last 4 years. I have the following skills and day job experience:
1 - Manual Testing of websites & Mobile Applications.
2 - Automation using ...
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How can we do User acceptance testing Manually? [closed]
General User acceptance testing test cases of any application or software.
Test cases of user acceptance testing like some of below:
Add tab functionality in a form
Shortcut keys of saving any form
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Where does QA fit into a common git branch flow
Doing some research on GIT has me interested that my company isn't using it as a best practice. I recently read through this diagram that is highly recommended by a lot of people and am wondering the ...
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How to test effectively when DEV/BAs design separately?
I'm at an organization where QA is basically kept in the dark when it comes to requirements/technical design. Documents are created usually during the Requirement gathering phase, but then by the time ...
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Difference between PHP and Dot Net from QA Point of view [closed]
How to identify whether the site is developed in PHP or Dot Net from QA Point of view?
The main purpose of asking the question was to know if there is any difference which a QA can make out just by ...
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Training a non-QA employee to do QA
I have just started working for a company as a QA Automation Lead, and have been informed that someone will be joining me to start the testing efforts here at this company. I have just found out who ...
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Setting up QA Department from Scratch (Web Development)
So I'm going to be starting a Job here in a few weeks, I've been doing QA for about 6 years now. Pretty much your standard Test Plans/Testing with a little normal SysAdmin stuff that sometimes comes ...
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What are steps of software testing life cycle? [closed]
After picking up some priority backlogs, what exactly is the role of a QA tester? I mean what are the actual steps, starting from understanding the requirements and types of documentation if needed?
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Which skills are required for a tester with only one year of experience [closed]
I am asking about what skills should a test engineer with one year test experience have?
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About QA title/Position
I have been working as QA/Tester for the last 4 years. I know there are a lot of different position titles in testing such as QA, QC, Tester, Quality analyst, Test Manager, Technical analyst and some ...
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Universities teaching Software Quality Assurance & Testing?
I found that starting in software testing often requires a degree in a computer science related subject, but I can't find any QA only degrees. I understand the importance of prior computing knowledge (...
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Hide a password in selenium IDE
My client uses simple Selenium IDE scripts for regression testing. The issue is that when the scripts are shared, people's AD usernames and passwords are shared too.
I'm trying to put a stop to this ...
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How to write automation when test engineers are constantly pulled to do manual testing?
The scenario:
Scrum team consists of more developers than testers
Stories revolve around 80% of testing tasks
Why so much testing?
There are asks of E2E testing for several user flows; regression ...
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Should I take interview of manual tester who has more experience than me
I am in a critical situation. I have nearly 4 years of experience in QA doing manual and automation testing.
We have a total of 4 testers where I work. I am now the most experienced QA in our ...
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Tips to Improve the QA Process in a Project...?
What can be some solid tips and suggestions to improve whole QA/Testing process in a project. I am testing a financial web application. What are the testing areas in which we can improve the process ...
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Which is the Most Important Skill of a Great Tester?
As a tester, I try to analyze things, think logically, look for clarity and create new ideas. What one skill is the greatest and most effective for an expert software Tester. Skill that is the secret ...
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Need some serious career advice from the elders here
I have recently graduated with a Software Engineering degree. I have found a job as a Test Automation Developer writing frameworks in ruby/cucumber to test other applications, that have been developed....
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How can we apply smoke and sanity testing concepts in real testing?
I want to apply smoke testing and sanity testing to running testing projects. So any one can help me by proper plan using which I can apply real smoke and sanity testing professionally as QA.
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How can I create a bug report [duplicate]
I am studying on websites manual test. I haven't any idea about making a bug report for developer by MS word, excel, powerpoint, PDF, video, screenshot etc. That they can understand easily my report &...
