How to find great QA engineers who can keep problems from slipping into production before they impact your bottom line, brand reputation or development capabilities. What makes a great QA engineer? What qualities do they possess that elevate them above just average testers? We’ve compiled six traits of a great QA engineer. 1. Inquisitive Asks, “What if…?” to better understand the product or the requirements. Questions bad practices. Finds defects by wondering what will happen if you do things differently. 2. Thorough Obsessed with checking work, recreating defects to verify them and testing everything that needs to be tested. Not…
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Casenet needed an onshore partner to help rewrite its flagship platform on a greatly compressed schedule. Surge – a Catalyte company delivered the high-caliber engineering resources Casenet needed, when they needed them. Outcome Over an extended four-year+ engagement, Surge – a Catalyte company helped Casenet redevelop its flagship TruCare platform and create single sign on (SSO) integration for its ProAuth product. Surge delivered on an aggressive timeline with a wide variety of technical resources, including: senior, remote engineers, full Agile teams, junior-level developers, QA engineers, project manager, scrum master/agile coaches and UI/UX specialists. The resulting improvements allow Casenet customers to…
If you're thinking of a cucumber, the answer is yes! Let me tell you all about it. What is Cucumber? Cucumber is a tool that utilizes a syntax called Gherkin, which makes acceptance criteria and test cases accessible to all interested stakeholders, technical and not so technical alike. The official documentation explains Cucumber like so: That sounds cool, but what is that Gherkin thing you mentioned? Gherkin is a plain English, human-readable syntax that defines who the audience is, what action is to be taken, and what the expected outcome should be. It looks something like this: Given I am…
What is QA? And why do I need "good" QA? I hear a lot of people talk about being in QA as an SDET or SEIT and I have to wonder, given how they talk or write, if they really understand what QA is and what it does. QA is not just testing, testing is QC and while that is a small part of QA, that is not all there is for QA. Good QA is about making sure everyone is on the same page. QA is about communication, including asking the "stupid" questions. QA does not assume that everyone…
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