How are Duties and Responsibilities Allocated Inside a Test Team?

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