Quality Assurance roles and responsibilities

This page defines roles and responsibilities to ensure we deliver high-quality systems.

QA engineer

• Wear the User Hat - bring to the team all the issues or pour experiences from the user’s perspective.

• Review the User-facing documentation

• Manually test all the Acceptance criteria

• Ensure the steps to test are described in the ticket

• Add evidence of the tests to the ticket

• Signoff User stories ticket releases

• Review component tests

• Add automated tests covering the user journey (E2E tests)

• Ensure the E2E tests are always passing

• Help to refine stories from the testing perspective

Developers

• Write unit tests

• Write Component tests

• Code review E2E tests

• Add instructions to QA engineers validate user story implementation

• Provide concise documentation when it can not be represented in the code

• Responsible for testing tech tasks

• Close Tech tasks

• Test all the releases in the development environment

• Ensure all E2E tests are passing

• Release to staging before handover the ticket to QA engineers

• Get signoff ASAP from QA engineers to release to prod

• Release to prod

• Ensure the code merged to the main branch is released to prod as soon as possible

Team Lead

• Code Review

• Document and ensure best practices

• Help to breakdown User stories into small deliverables

• Review sprint deliverables

Product owner

• Validate user stories implementation
• Approve Devs to close User stories