This article provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst on a project, as well as their involvement in different phases of the project. It explains the mandatory and optional responsibilities of a QA Analyst, such as reporting and retesting bugs, functional testing, regression testing, and preparing testing strategies. The article also discusses the involvement of other project roles, including Project Managers, Solution Architects, Configuration Engineers, and Business Analysts. It outlines the expectations from QA Analysts in various project phases, including sales, handover, foundation sprint, preparation and setup, feature sprint, UAT, cutover, and stabilization.
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Roles and responsibilities on the project
Note: QA Analyst responsibilities can vary on different projects as sometimes we have lower allocation we would need to do everything we would like to. Therefore responsibilities for QA Analyst are divided into 2 sections - mandatory and optional.
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PMProject Manager | Project manager | · Lead The project manager is responsible for leading the team, defining and maintaining the project plan and timeline, managing project communications and status reporting, overseeing sprint execution and delivery, ensuring up-to-date project documentation, and selecting individuals to support pre-sales activities and SoW creation. |
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SASolution Architect | Solution Architect · Define oversees defining solution architecture, user story development, guiding solution development, ensuring solution quality, mentoring technical team members, and supporting scope estimations. |
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CEConfiguration Engineer | Configuration Engineer · Configure is responsible for configuring the solution based on design from the SA. |
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QA | Quality assurance (role is QA Analyst) is responsible for testing, bug reporting, retesting, and preparing testing strategy, with proper communication and documentation in X-Ray. | Mandatory:
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Business Analyst | BA | Business Analyst | /wiki/spaces/CUST/pages/2456158437 is responsible for analyzing, structuring, designing, and documenting pricing processes and practices, proposing viable pricing solutions, advising on business practices, documenting pricing requirements, and serving as an intermediary between key users, product owners, and the application implementation team |
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Project phases and QA involvement
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