subject: Main Tasks In A Job Of Software Tester [print this page] As a tester you have to do about such tasks:
Log software bugs
Perform test passes
Communicate with management of various levels
Perform manual tests
Schedule software projects
Making decisions on whether something is a bug or a design constraint
Develop software test plans for projects or the whole program
Make serious decisions about the product
Write test cases for green testers
Research competition
Allocate resources
Automate testing or write applications for the command (if it is possible)
Undoubtedly, if you begin to work for a company as a junior tester, you will be not assigned to take radical decisions in testing. There is a strong likelihood that you'll be doing someone test cases and learning a lot.
There are two important aspects for the organization:
The company also has not very important staff that performs not very serious test scripts that take unnecessary time of more experienced and trained testers.
The work familiarizes you with the product and its components.
Use this time with to improve your skills. You will have probably been bored, but everybody goes through it, and software testers use this experience to their advantage. If you have ideas how to improve testing or test case, notify about it your manager. They will be happy, since hired a person who is working to improve the current status of colleagues. You will grow up using this time to explore different parts of the process.
In the end, you will have the tasks, such as reading the product specifications and design, which requires a lot of time for implementation in different parts of the producing cycle. If you are vigilant it will serve you for a good experience, despite the fact that you can be bored. If you were a manager, who controls the assignment of new scripts, you can more effectively manage their performance, their abilities and thus more clearly explain their work.
As you start with ground level we should learn the basics. Sometimes, software testing begins with test case design, but very rarely organization appoints new software tester to make test plans and schedules for software testing process. Surely someone has already done this job and you have to go through the execution of these tests.
Adequately the discussion on testing should start with understanding and implementation of software testing; and later move on to design test cases and answering the question how to test the program more effectively with minimal efforts.
