Are you an aspiring Quality Assurance professional??? All you need to know

This article will help aspiring Quality Assurance professionals to understand how to shape their career.

Being a QA professional or aspiring QA professionals, you should focus on below-mentioned aspects:

Domain Knowledge: The foremost aspect of testing. You can never test an application without putting yourself in the shoes of the end user, and for this, domain know-how is very much essential. Suppose you are working for a Banking application where money transaction is involved, in this scenario if you missed some critical business workflow it might lead to a huge monetary loss. E2E domain knowledge gives you confidence while testing the application. From my experience, a good understanding of domain knowledge helps in day to day life as well as you will be recognized by your teammate.

Testing Skills: Now a day every company is moving to Agile, where you get less time to test Application. The best way to do test planning is during refinement or planning meeting to get all your doubts clarified before any PBI (Product Backlog Item) come to your queue. Be active in the refinement meeting ask lots of questions there itself, you will get a plan what kind of testing needs to be carried out on the epic. On the attributes front, testers must be good critics, with an ardent desire to unearth defects from the most improbable zones.

Technical Proficiency: IT market is volatile in nature. Every now and then technologies are evolving. To be in the race you must be on the same page. Be it Analytics, IoT, AI or new Testing Tools you need to catch up with all this. Do not keep yourself to one kind of testing specialization, you need to have a different kind of testing knowledge such as Security, Performance, Automation. Without adequate Technical proficiency, you might not sustain in the industry for the long run. Upgrade your proficiency and evaluate yourself timely.

Process knowledge: Finally, competencies on processes and framework such as CMMI can help testers assess maturity levels of testing processes, drive business process improvements, and achieve results — all flawlessly.

The above dimensions will help aspiring QA professionals to build their career.