Job Description
As a Software Tester, you will have a major role to play in the quality assurance stage of software development. You will carry out manual tests to ensure the software created meets the requirements. This involves the analysis of software to prevent issues and fixing bugs before the product is dispatched to users. As working with code is part of the role, software testers are expected to be familiar with various coding languages.
Role of the Manual tester
- Analyzing the requirements from clients
- Arranging Test Environment to execute the test cases
- Conducting Review Meetings
- Analyzing and executing Test Cases
- Defect Tracking
- Communicating with Test Manager
Manual Tester Deliverables
- Test Plans
- Reporting of bugs to developers so as to fix it
- Test Cases for various testing processes
- Summary Reports
- Test Data for test cases
- Lesson Learnt documents (based on testing inputs from previous project)
- Suggestion Documents (to improve software quality)
- Test Scenarios
Qualification and Other Requirements
As a minimum, a degree in computer science, IT, Engineering or relevant fields is required. Graduates from various disciplines, including chemistry, mathematics and physics can get trained to become a manual tester. Some candidates are able to enter the profession with a mere foundation degree. Employers prefer professionals with experience on different iOS frameworks, mobile apps, Objective-C, programming tools, third-party libraries and APIs. Testers with excellent communication skills and a knack for working on algorithms are desired.
Desired Technical Skills and Experience
- Experience in an automated test environment
- iOS testing like Travis CI and XCTest
- UI automation with Xcode 7
- Knowledge of Swift
- QTP
- Test Management software
- User Acceptance Testing
- iOS testing frameworks
- Basic Programming skills
- Java programming knowledge
- QA Software tools
- SQL knowledge
- ALM
- Jira