Roles and Responsibilities of Software Testing Professionals

Generally, Roles and Responsibilities of a Testing Engineer may vary, depending upon the working company. Let us see the general and important roles and responsibilities of a Software Testing Engineer.

• Analyzing the requirements from the Customer
• Understand Process and Procedure followed in the company
• Preparation of Test scenarios and Test Cases based on Software Requirement specification (SRS) or Functional requirement document.
• Communication with the Test Lead / Test Manager
• Conduct Test case review meeting and be part of Brainstorming session to discuss the functionality
• Participating in preparing test plans and test scenarios
• Preparing test environment to execute the test cases
• Defect Tracking and preparing summary reports
• Preparing suggestion documents to improve the quality of the application
• Coordinate as a team with local and remote teammates.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance software quality delivered.
• Report and track defects in a bug tracking system.
• Execution of Test cases or Test scripts
• Record the test result (pass/fail).
• Record new defects uncovered during the test execution.
• Provide comments on any defects that are discovered during testing.
• Retest defects as necessary.
• Support software engineers in reproducing problems
• Flexible in working under changing and different work settings.
• Pay high attention to detail in all work
• A good Team Player and Share workload within Team.
• Contribute to the company knowledge base and process improvements.