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Sr. No Usual Software QA Tester Better / Excellent Software QA Tester

The document describes the characteristics of an excellent software QA tester: 1. Writes thorough test cases with details and few review comments, debugs failures to determine probable causes, and ensures defect reports contain all necessary reproduction information. 2. Thinks beyond immediate tasks to improve testing processes, scenarios, and approaches, and explores systems thoroughly to understand intricacies. 3. Tests with a customer mindset rather than a tester mindset, thinking like a new user to uncover realistic test scenarios.

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Sr. No Usual Software QA Tester Better / Excellent Software QA Tester

The document describes the characteristics of an excellent software QA tester: 1. Writes thorough test cases with details and few review comments, debugs failures to determine probable causes, and ensures defect reports contain all necessary reproduction information. 2. Thinks beyond immediate tasks to improve testing processes, scenarios, and approaches, and explores systems thoroughly to understand intricacies. 3. Tests with a customer mindset rather than a tester mindset, thinking like a new user to uncover realistic test scenarios.

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Usual Software QA Tester Writes test cases with average to acceptable quality

Better / Excellent Software QA Tester Writes test cases which are very well written, contain the right amount of detail, have very less review comments Not only does he report the defects, but he also provides inputs as to what could be the probable reason for the failure by doing some debugging, poking of the system on his own. Reproduces the same erroneous behavior more than once on his or other systems, and then only reports it as a defect. The excellent software QA tester also make sure that the defect reports are well documented and contain all the necessary information (build, OS, defect snapshot, inputs, steps followed etc.) required to reproduce the defect.

Reports defects with no frills

Reported defects may / may not be reproduced always

The excellent software QA tester not only does he think about the immediate testing Usual thinking approach - focuses only on at hand, but only goes out-of-the-box in the task at hand coming up with better test scenarios, test cases and testing approaches. The excellent software QA tester always is thinking about how to improve the system. He comes up with better processes, better ideas and innovations that can simplify testing, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the test efforts. This is the one of the most differentiating factor - the willingness to explore the system and understand it in as much detail as can be possible. Excellent software QA tester are not content in being plain aware of their system, they are the first people to break into every nook and cranny of the system, and understand all the intracacies, dependencies, backdoor entries etc. Tests with a customer's attitude. Excellent software QA tester always put themselves in the shoes of the customer, and then test.

Laid back to okay attitude

Minimal to Satisfactory System Awareness

Test with a tester's attitude

This allows them to use the system in a way that a new user of the system would, and in the process they come up with more realistic and real-world scenarios then what would be possible from a tester's byrote-experienced-user attitude.

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