Quality assurance is a different profession and not something you just do along software development. QA professional must have an appropriate background and keep themselves updated with the latest methodologies, technologies, and trends.
Keeping this scenario in mind, we are presenting the list of 5 responsibilities of a QA manager in an agile environment.
1. Set Some Basic Ground RulesQA managers must provide their agile teams some responsibility and independence to manage themselves. The organization as a whole must work as a coherent unit. It must have a few pre-defined ground rules like:
- Software Testing tools to use
- Methodologies to apply
- Define defect statuses
- Recognize the state of a build
A QA manager works with the R&D managers to define and agree to what standards to utilize. This controls the way we introduce techniques to the teams, train them and monitor progress and quality during the development process. These turn out to be the guidelines the R&D team incorporates to apply QA processes within their development teams.
2. Build Their Team WiselyAll the development teams have their own area of expertise. One team works on the user interface and others concentrate on back-end services. Various areas of development require specialized knowledge like automated and manual testing. Test automation is different as it depends on the user interface, cascading style sheets implementation or REST API.
A QA manager builds team wisely, with the correct number of end-to-end QA architects and development testers. In addition to this, they define responsibilities and roles and the way thing work. You must guarantee that the development testers are appropriately equipped to test their team’s specific development work. Read more
