Testing and Business Analysis

I started my carrier as a Manual Tester, then converting my self as an Technical Quality Analyst. They gave me an opportunity to serve team as a Test Lead and currently working as an Business Analyst. Company identified our skill set and gave opportunity for self development.

As a Manual Tester, used to write the test scripts, identifying the test cases and scripting them as use cases, testing the application. Its continuous process to make the application strong ans stable. While doing these process, company identified my interest in reading codes and gave me an opportunity to work as an Technical Quality Analyst.

As a Technical Quality Analyst, I used to read and review the codes. Helping team to identify the places of improvements as per standards, optimization. And also helps to trace the unreachable code. Takes a major role in performing unit testing of the programs. This makes me more interested in coding. I being the last gate keeper of the code to maintain the better quality of code. During this process company identified me as a Test Lead.

As a Test Lead, continuing my life as a Technical Quality Analyst I used to assist my co-technical analysts and testers by preparing test plans, test suits and test strategies. Maintaining a report of bugs and new feature development we have. Taking care of regression testing (Automation – Selenium) and performance testing (JMeter). Working on Selenium and JMeter was very interesting part finding bugs in our own application and helping the organization to build an bug free application.

While going thru all these phases I have zeal of playing a role of Business Analyst, where as my company gave me an opportunity turn my self to walk towards it. Taking the requirements from the Product Owner, and driving those requirements to team and helps them in creating a working software fulfilling the requirements. Takes part in taking technical decisions, guiding team when and where ever they requires it. Also takes care of testing and documenting the application.

Learning is a continuous process, over the period learned many things over the period. After all this I shouldn’t call this as an company, this is home and we are family.