Roles and Responsibilities of the test engineer

                 

• Analyze the application functionality using Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents.
• Identify Test Scenarios.
• Developing Test Cases.
• Implement Test Scripts in Automation Tool.
• Reviews of Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Execution of Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Defect Reporting and  Prioritizing defects.
• Performing Re-Testing and Regression Testing.

Now you may get lots of doubts, "What are these words :( " Don't worry. I will explain each term :)

Business Requirement Specification (BRS)- The document which describes the client's business needs.
Functional Requirement Specification (FRS)- The document describes the functionality of the application as per BRS document.
Test Scenario- The situation / conditions which we are going to validate.
Test Case-It is the set of steps with user interaction and subsequent reaction from the system in order to validate the application functionality.
Test Script- Instructions which are given in the automation tool to validate the application.
Defect Reporting -Intimating about the identified defects while execution to the development team is known as defect reporting.

Re-Testing- After fixing the defect, testing the application is called re-testing.

Regression Testing- Testing  to check the effect of defect fixing work on other areas of application.

Other Important terms for now.....

Defect/ Bug Fixing: Solving the defect is known as defect fixing and it will be done by s/w developers.

Debugging: Identifying the root for causing the defect is known as debugging using Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

Interview Questions_006: difference between BRS and FRS documents?

Interview Questions_007: Difference between Re-Testing and Regression Testing?

Interview Questions_008:Define the terms Test Scenario, Test Case, Test Script, Defect Reporting , Defect/Bug Fixing, Debugging