QA Specialist in an Agile Team

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QA Specialist in an Agile Team



Agile ! The buzz word that emerges frequently and is practiced everywhere you look around. New roles have emerged and challenges are being tackled while the teams have evolved with time, practising and implementing Agile. One such role is of a ‘so called’ Agile QA / QA Specialist in a Development team whose role has evolved over a period of time and is significant. Please note the so called is quoted and that’s for a reason. Agile dev teams identifies no roles within the dev team.

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If you are playing the above role ask yourself the below questions :

  1. Is my ultimate goal to ensure that high quality product is being built iteratively
  2. Am I Involved beyond writing test cases and executing them? Like analyse the user requirement
  3. Am I able to visualize the product/feature that is being built and have clarity
  4. Do I try to bring in automation where ever possible
  5. Am I able to enhance, maintain and utilize the test automation framework built
  6. Do I contribute to building quality in the process

Does not matter where you are in your QA journey above questions and finding the right answers to them will help you play your QA specialist role more effectively.

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