Software Testing Roles and Responsibilities
Software Testing Roles and Responsibilities
| Role | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Software Tester | Execute manual test scenarios for software applications and report defects |
| Automation Tester | Prepare and execute automated test cases. Provide test execution reports |
| Performane Tester | Execute load and stress tests to evaluate application stability and response times. Provide performance test reports. |
| Test Analyst | Monitor and improve the testing process. Contribute to testing, analysis, reporting, and defining quality metrics. |
| Test Lead | Plan and coordinate test activities for a team of testers. |
| Test Manager | Elaborate test plans and test strategies. Manage and coordinate test team activities. |
Software Tester
- Primary responsibility of a software tester is to perform manual testing on applications to ensure that the product quality fits customer expectations.
- Tester will perform manual testing of the applications and will raise defects and errors.
- Depening on the size of the team and project, testing activities differ for different testers.
- When QA teams are large, then test lead can distribute the work to the testers so that testers need to focus only on test execution and raise defects.
- Incase of smaller QA teams, a software testing role includes activities like test creation,planning and test status reporting.
Responsibilities of a Software Tester
- Software tester review design and user documentation, project specifications and requirements.
- Based on product requirements test write functional test cases and test steps.
- Tester execute the functional test cases and steps to verify the quality for product
- Tester also performs very important tests like sanity, smoke,functional and regression testing.
- Error Analysis and Bug Reporting is also done by the testers.
- Tester also assist in requirement analysis, test design, and test documents.
Software Tester
Automation Tester
- To ensure quality consistency and reduce manual testing efforts on software application is the primary responsibility of an automation tester.
- Stable test cases only are executed by the automation tester to run regularly to guaranted code changes donot affect the stable features with new bugs.
- Automation tester activities may vary by using different testing frameworks with user friendly interfaces or testing tools for QA process.
- Sometimes automation testers also help in manula testing for increasing the overall productivity and also to gain experience with test scenarios before creating the automated test case.
Responsibilities of a Automation Tester
- Automation tester also review design and user documentation, project specifications and requirements.
- They also design and execute automated test cases.
- Automation tester also prepares test environment and test data.
- From all automation executions they track and report all defects.
- Provide test execution statistics and test summary reports.
Automation Tester
Performance Tester
- Primary responsibility of a performance tester is to run load and stress tests to understand the behaviour of the application in terms of speed, stability, robustness and response time.
- Performance testers also analyze technical and business requirements for performance KPIs.
- Performance testing also helps to identify early on how much load the system can handle, for ex: how many users are using the system at the same time and if any hardware upgrades are needed before going live.
- Performance testers work closely with project architects and stakeholders to report on performance results.
Responsibilities of Performance Tester
- To gather requirements related to performance and system load performance tester works with project stakeholders.
- They also work closely with the development team to resolve the performance issues.
- They also prepare performance test scripts and test data.
- These tester perform load and stress tests.
- They prepare detailed performance reports.
Performance Tester
Test Analyst
- Test analyst only identifies and propose improvements of the software quality process.
- They also suggest improvements for workflow, methods and reporting used.
- Testing, requirement analysis, documentation and process improvement and technical analysis of specification and error cases are activities performed by the test analyst.
Responsibilities of Test Analyst
- Test analyst review design and user documentation, project specification and requirements.
- They work on Design Specifications, Test Plans, and Test Cases
- They define criteria and KPIs for evaluating test results
- They Help define and improve test processes
- They also help to perform software testing
Test Analyst
Test Lead
- Test lead primary job is to plan and coordinate activities for a team of testers.
- He can also colloboratein team activities and test execution.
- They also mentor testers ad manage test requirements.
- Test lead is also responsibile for configuring and preparing QA environments for testing.
Responsibilities of a Test Lead
- Test lead coordinates a team of testers and testing tasks.
- Understands and analyze business and technical requirements
- Assist the test team in investigating and resolving problems
- Report, document, and track software testing issues
Test Lead
Test Manager
- Test manager coordinates between test lead and team of testers.
- Test lead and test manager perform similar kind of roles.
- Test manager has broader responsibility than test lead.
- Test manager can have more than one QA team to manage and the QA team can be handled each by a test lead.
- In case of assistance for tester and test lead, test manager provides needed assistance.
- His activities also include managing testing requirements and choosing the test managmen tools that need to be used.
Responsibilities of Test Manager
- Coordinate a team of testers and team leads
- Understand and analyze business and technical requirements
- Assist the test team in investigating and resolving problems
- Report, document, and track software testing issues
- Define Test Strategies and Test Plans
- Decide on appropriate tools for testing
Test Manager Role