How are Duties and Responsibilities Allocated Inside a Test Team?
April 11, 2014
Executing of mobile testing, desktop testing and web site testing requires significant efforts, resources and team work.
A software testing company usually appoints a project manager, test leads and testers for each project. Every member of a test team has its duties and responsibilities. Quality of the whole testing process depends on skills, carefulness and diligence of each test team member.
Duties of a Project Manager Usually Are:
- administration of the web site testing, desktop testing or mobile application testing
- allocation of duties and responsibilities between the test team members;
- ratifying of all the project test documents;
- acquiring needed resources for test activities and making sure that everything is ready for testing;
- being in charge of all the processes and reporting about progress of the testing process.
Duties of a Test Lead are:
- planning of entrusted test activities;
- reporting how the entrusted processes and tasks are performed;
- ensuring that the entrusted works are done according to the schedule.
Duties of a Tester are:
- elaborating of test cases according to the test plan;
- performing the test cases, searching for software bugs;
- documenting the discovered errors, logging them into a bug tracking system.
Source : QATestlab