Plan which manual tests to automate first based on frequency, risk and stability.
Testing and QA
Skills for test planning, test design, automation, bug reporting and release quality.
Summarise test results for stakeholders with pass rates, open risks and a recommendation.
Test how a service behaves under overload and that it sheds load gracefully.
Test that a monitoring alert fires for the failure it is meant to catch.
Plan and record a backup restore drill with timings and checks that the data is usable.
Plan tests for a data migration covering row counts, sampling and reconciliation.
Write security test cases for authentication, authorisation and input handling.
Plan testing effort by the likelihood and impact of each risk.
Find duplicate test cases and merge them without losing coverage.
Run a defect triage with severity, priority, owner and a decision for each item.
Triage beta tester feedback into defects, requests and misunderstandings.
Test a localised build for truncation, layout, date formats and missing translations.