Roles and Responsibilities of QA in Software Testing

Quality assurance (QA) roles are responsible for creating and performing tests, identifying errors, and providing feedback to verify that a final product meets a company’s quality requirements.

The QA analyses and executes the products in all possible logical ways for a quality product, As the Software testers do not make software; they make them better. So a QA performs software testing where they evaluate the functionality of a software application to find whether the developed software is error-free.

But testing is not the only part of QA, it analyses whether the software follows all business requirements, and functionality offering an easy and secure user interface that facilitates effortless workflows for the end-users.

The Role of Quality Assurance (QA) in Deployment: During a deployment, QA typically needs to be on call. These occur frequently late at night (most probably) when users are less likely to be affected. QA is on standby during a deployment. As soon as the release goes live, QA gets to work, undergoing smoke testing to ensure that the deployment went smoothly.

The Role of Quality Assurance (QA) In Maintenance: Bugs do occasionally slip through, even the best automation or manual testing cannot find all the bugs on browser plugins all of the time. QA can be on hand to test the feature updates or bug fixes.

Responsibilities of QA:

A tester’s time is mostly spent on specific tasks, such as writing test cases and bug reports. Of course, QA will test the app or website thoroughly. But other activities consist of:

• Test planning – Which involves activities of defining the objectives of testing and the approach for meeting test objectives.
• Test Strategy – Create a test strategy based on project requirements and schedules.
• Early testing to eliminate defects at an early stage reduces the bug fixing cost and time.
• Executing tests with appropriate techniques (manually or by using test execution tools) and documenting testing failures.
• Analyze the Defects and identify the root cause.
• Troubleshoot defects, such that it does not affect the product quality.
• Report defects to software developers by recording the bugs and raising them in GIT.
• Inform the test progress against a schedule of the quality management.
• Interact with BA, project manager, development team, and client as per need.
• Conduct different test procedures, report issues, and follow up on the status of the issues.
• Collaborate with the software testing team to assess or diagnose problems and suggest possible solutions.
• Uncover vulnerabilities in the system and determine that its data and resources are protected from intruders.
• Provides a test summary report that reflects the software quality.

Conclusion: QA tests the proficiency of the product in all aspects by evaluating them using software testing techniques. QA is an essential factor for software development as they help to provide a quality and reliable product to the end user.