What Is The Life Of A Software Tester / Quality Assurance Analyst Like?
• Writing Test Cases Software Testers have to write test plans, test cases, quality assurance policies, documents and procedures (if their role involves quality assurance) based on meetings with developers, business analysts and product managers or business users. • Setting Up QA / Testing Enviroments / Tools Software Testers have to prepare or setup a separate testing environment also known as the Quality Assurance (QA) environment. Because QA environments are close copies of production environments, some QA specialists have to refresh their databases, application configurations, software or hardware with production settings. This is important because if the QA environment differs from the production environment, then the results or efforts of the QA Analyst may end up being worthless. • Reporting Bugs / Defects Software Testers discover and document bugs with tools like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Web / Software Bug Tracking Software. Before this, testers first have to setup and
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