QA Analyst should be typically focussed on these tasks:
-
manual functional testing based on project user stories
-
prioritize your tests so you can help the project the most - typically positive cases should be the first ones
-
be aware of your project allocation - if your allocation is not big enough, discuss it with your PM
-
keep in mind that it is not possible to test everything so start with the most important tests
-
-
reporting of your work
-
use X-Ray for test management - it must be clear what you tested and what was the results
-
use “light version” of test management - you don’t have to document every test step, simple description of what you will test is enough
-
when you find an issue, don’t forget to change the status of the user story to “rejected“ and assign user story back to CE
-
-
reporting of your time
-
reporting should be done every day
-
time should be reported to the correct user story or to administration task
-
-
test automation for internal purpose to support development
-
regression testing when the project is close to the end
-
smoke testing on qa partition before the customer starts testing
-
more manual functional testing - more calculations, more variants of products, different data
-
API testing or other testing based on project needs