quality assurance engineer #jobshadowday #xwiki
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Quality Assurance EngineerJob Shadow Day, April 11, 2014
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About me:5 days of the week:!• Junior Quality Assurance Engineer !
Day by day:!• full-time Mozilla Rep • full-time Romanian Mozilla Community
member • full-time Firefox user • part-time Firefox OS app reviewer • part-time QA contributor !
Where you can find me:!• twitter: @andreea_popescu • LinkedIn: @andreeazpopescu
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What a QA engineer does!
• Writes test plans from the requirements, specifications and test strategies
• Uses versioning systems to code test scripts
• Creates and perform test campaign whenever it is necessary to fit in the overall planning
• Uses bug tracking database to report bugs
• Analyses test results
• Reports results to the QA manager
• Raises an alert when an important issue is likely to put in jeopardy the whole project
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What makes a good QA Engineer
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1. Broad understanding of the product
• The QA engineer must know the
product well enough
• Knowing the product includes also
knowing how end-users expect it
to work
• The QA engineer must have a
"customer-focus" vision
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2. Effective communication• Direct communication with both
Development and Product teams
• Capability to communicate with technical and non-technical people
• Having the diplomacy to say "no" when a bug is considered as not fixed
• Having the diplomacy to communicate about a bug without “offending" the developer
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3. Creativity
• The QA engineer must use its creativity to figure out all the scenarios that are likely to detect a bug
• The QA engineer must be able to "see beyond the obvious”.
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4. Development knowledge
• Development capabilities are required to eventually code automated tests
• If you know how to develop, you have better ideas on what is "dangerous" to code, so what to test more thoroughly
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QA Engineer at XWiki
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2. Reporting bugs
• A bug can be: blocker, critical,
major, minor or trivial.
• Jira - for bug tracking
• We can come, also, with New
Features, Ideas and Improvements.
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3. Bugs
• translation bugs
• design bugs
• functionality bugs
• security bugs
• navigation bugs
• other bugs
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The end.
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Sources:
• [1] - http://www.xqual.com/documentation/tutorial_qa_engineer_skills.html (content)!
• [2] - http://geek-and-poke.com (images)