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What could one developer do to change the attitude towards testing in a company where testing is considered a second-class citizen? I'd like to keep this question generic, but, if details are neede …

Good day, beautiful and smart people! We've been prototyping an application and it is more or less at the MVP stage and the customer, seeing the minimum desired functionality, is taking things seriou …

For us, QA generalists are roughly professionals who can work in the variety of quality assurance disciplines, have experience in a broad range of products, industries, and tools, have an understandin …

We've been going through onboarding procedures with multiple people that were becoming a part of our QA team throughout the history of our company. During these times we usually try to meet with a new …

In our company, we think that some of the key skills for a tester are the attention to detail and observation skills, these are some of the major things we are looking for in the interviews. What kin …

Our company has been growing and with it our products and the QA team. Our QA team previously has only handled a single "headline" company's product and had this "startup"-like flexible and agile rel …

We are going to have a couple of interviews coming up soon for a position in our QA department. The position requires quite a lot of manual testing and a bit of test automation which is going to grow. …

Whenever our developer fixes a bug, he or she just posts "Fixed in version x.x.x.x, please test". We, the QA team, have requested developers to be as detailed as possible about what caused a problem …

Let's imagine this common situation: a tester creates an issue for a developer to fix, providing the steps to reproduce, screenshots and other details (if available). Then, a developer does not think …

But, I can already imagine difficulties proving the need to management and trying to come up with answers to "our tests are working and helpful, why change things and invest time/money?" question. … What are the general tactical moves and supporting arguments to make the management accept such a proposal? …

Our release cycles are not strictly periodical but happen about every month. Sometimes, after a regular testing phase, we, a QA team, are not satisfied with the amount of testing and feel that this pa …

It is important to maintain good and productive professional relationship with the management, stakeholders and development team. …

Most of times, these cases when presented to management and development team are not taken seriously or completely ignored. …

I am not absolutely sure I can use the above mentioned facts to justify a request for a new test automation specialist since our management is not really fully aware of the scale of our test automation … and what testers actually do on a daily basis - there is a bit of a disconnect between QA team and product management. …

We have several part time testers who do both manual testing and test automation. When I receive a pull request from them, I noticed that I am reviewing their code less strictly and allow a minor cod …