Role of QA Tester

Testing is a set of skills that allow the tester to select or invent practices suitable for each distinctive situation.

Responsibilities of QA Analyst

• Responsible for creating an end-to-end test plan; executing and managing all activities in the plan.
• Ensuring that all the objectives are met and that the solution works as expected.
• The solution should be tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability and compatibility with other legacy- and / or external systems.
• Ensuring that every phase and feature of the software solution is tested and that any potential issue is identified and fixed before the product goes live.

Variations of the Quality Assurance Analyst roles

The Quality Assurance Analyst – Backend Testing role is focused on testing the database portion of the software solution; how the database interacts with the software solution.
The Functional Tester is the everyday blackbox software tester.
The Automated Tester designs automated test scripts and deploys these scripts using automation software like QuickTest Professional, Rational Functional Tester, SilkTest and VisualStudio Test Professional. The automated tester must make determinations as to what portion of the overall test will benefit from automation as test automation is not effective for all kinds of tests.

Quality Assurance Analyst SQL Backend Tester will validate that the sites and systems meet design specifications and requirements using SQL Server database tools.
Responsibilities:

• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Backend database testing in Microsoft SQL environment including validating stored procs, jobs and triggers.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Develop, document and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results.
• Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues immediately to management.
• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
• Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.

More about QA tester tasks

• As all QA projects do not have the same objectives, it is crucial to initially determine the goals and objectives of the project.
• In case the product is in development stage, a detailed documentation of the development process is necessary for future QA audits.
• In-case distribution is a key consideration for delivering the product to the customer, define the customer first and pay attention to their needs such as quality product, compliance, cost reduction and so on while testing.
• Create a process or workflow map, which is a visual diagram of the product flow from production to delivery.
• The cycle time is to be noted and redundant or non-value- added processes are to be checked for.
• Process controls, which are automated and unobtrusive, are to be developed.
• Continuous monitoring of product quality, cost reduction, cycle time reduction and faster delivery is the heart and soul of QA.