Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Roles and Responsibilities


Roles and  Responsibilities

9.1 Test Manager
§   Single point contact between Wipro onsite and offshore team
§   Prepare the project plan
§   Test Management
§   Test Planning
§   Interact with Wipro onsite lead, Client QA manager
§   Team management
§   Work allocation to the team
§   Test coverage analysis
§   Co-ordination with onsite for issue resolution.
§   Monitoring the deliverables
§   Verify readiness of the product for release through release review
§   Obtain customer acceptance on the deliverables
§   Performing risk analysis when required
§   Reviews and status reporting
§   Authorize intermediate deliverables and patch releases to customer.
9.2 Test Lead
§   Resolves technical issues for the product group
§   Provides direction to the team members
§   Performs activities for the respective product group
§   Review and Approve of Test Plan / Test cases
§   Review Test Script / Code
§   Approve completion of Integration testing
§   Conduct System / Regression tests
§   Ensure tests are conducted as per plan
§   Reports status to the Offshore Test Manager


9.3 Tester Engineer
§   Development of Test cases and Scripts
§   Test Execution
§   Result capturing and analysing
§   Follow the test plans, scripts etc. as documented.
§   Check tests are correct before reporting s/w faults
§   Defect Reporting and Status reporting
§   Assess risk objectively
§   Prioritize what you report
§   Communicate the truth.
9.4 How to Prioritize Tests:
§   We can’t test every thing.
§   There is never enough time to do all testing you would like.
§   So Prioritize Tests.
Tips
§   Possible ranking criteria ( all risk based)
§   Test where a failure would be most serve.
§   Test where failures would be most visible.
§   Take the help of customer in understanding what is most important to him.
§   What is most critical to the customers business.
§   Areas changed most often.
§   Areas with most problems in the past.
§   Most complex areas, or technically critical.
Note: If you follow above, whenever you stop testing, you have done the best testing in the time available.


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