Roles and responsibilities of a software tester

The natural instinct of Software Developer is to demonstrate that their application works well. A testers focus is different. It is to demonstrate the application’s weakness or to show software breaking. The Roles and responsibilities of a Software Tester would vary based on the organization they work and the kind of Application that is under test. In general the important Roles and Responsibilities of a Software Tester are

Planning Phase

• Analyzing the Software Requirements

Design Phase

• Participating in preparing Test Plans
• Preparing, Analyzing and Reviewing Test Scenarios

Development Phase

• Preparing, Analyzing and Reviewing Test Cases
• Preparing Test Data’s for the test cases
• Preparing Test Environment to execute the test cases

Testing Phase

• Executing the Test Cases
• Defect Tracking
• Coordinating with the Development Team to fix the defects
• Preparing Bug Reports.

Release Phase

• Preparing Summary Reports
• Preparing Lesson Learnt documents from the previous project testing experience

Quality is never an accident, it is the result of intelligent effort