Test planning and execution
• Responsible for developing test cases, planning test set ups as per defined test strategy in order to assess the functional and non-functional quality and reliability of a component and/ or a system.
• Responsible for developing test scripts and maintaining them, in case of automated testing.
• Responsible for reviewing the requirements, feature descriptions, user experience specifications etc. to ensure that they are testable from functional and non-functional points of view.
• Accountable for performing the tests with safety precautions.
• Responsible for ensuring agreed levels of test coverage, where needed collaborating with other stakeholders such as development teams.
• Responsible for maintaining the test cases to ensure their continued effectiveness
• Responsible for performing testing at customer sites and at external labs.
Defect Resolution
• Accountable for analyzing test results and reporting defects in an actionable form using the agreed processes and tools.
• Responsible for assisting the development teams in reproducing, analyzing the defects.
Quality and Reliability
• Responsible for summarizing the quality and reliability status based on the performed tests
• Responsible for providing accurate inputs to other processes such as quality mgmt., release mgmt. and DevOps processes, to ensure product/service quality and reliability levels are understood and used for decision making.
• Responsible for troubleshooting field issues and supporting the development teams in quick resolution of the same.
• Responsible for performing Certification and qualification testing for new components/modules.
Collaboration
• Responsible for participating and actively contributing to agile ceremonies such as daily stand ups and sprint planning.
• Responsible for collaborating with other testers to ensure a system level approach to testing and reliability assessment.
• Responsible for collaborating with other stakeholders such as developers, integrators, and product owners to ensure effective testing.
• Provide inputs to stakeholder teams with improvements ideas and corrective actions about the system/component being tested.
Safety Focus
• Responsible for Tester and simulator internal safety inspections and compliance with safety regulations