The roles and responsibilities of a tester often vary from organization to organization. In general, a testers main purpose is to design, develop, and conduct system tests and supports acceptance testing. The roles and responsibilities of a tester include the core activities associated with the test effort. This usually involves identifying the most appropriate implementation approach specific tests, performing test preparations, executing the tests, logging outcomes, and administering the defect tracking system. More detailed aspects of the roles and responsibilities of a tester is included in the following:
- Analyzing client requirements
- Understand the software application being tested
- Prepare test strategy
- Participating in test plan preparation
- Preparing test scenarios
- Preparing test cases (used for module, integration, and system testing
- Preparing test data (used for test cases)
- Preparing test environment
- Analyzing test cases (those prepared by others)
- Write necessary test scripts
- Executing the test cases
- Defect tracking
- Perform necessary retesting
- Providing defect information (for developers)
- Preparing report summaries
- Preparing lesson learnt documents
- Conducting review meetings within the team
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