QAE1 - Career Path Guideline

/ QAE1 - Quality Assurance Engineer

I plan and execute testing of features and report issues to the team.

Scope
Area of ownership and autonomy

I execute on defined tasks and contribute to solving the problems;

Teamwork
Organization reach and level of influence

I work within the scope of my team with guidance from my EM3 and manager;

Impact
Technical levels that impacts the business

My focus is to improve my technical skills;

1. Results

Responsibility

Expected behavior

Impact

I work with my engineering manager and manager to prioritize tasks that add the most value to the customer;
I understand and effectively participate in the core processes of my team (planning, development, releases, bug fixes, support);

Ownership

I follow up on my tasks and commitments, take responsibility for my work, and deliver my work on time;
I engage into discussion to clarify what is expected from me related to my commitment;
When I fail I learn from the failures and improve;

Decision making

When there is a problem or I am stuck with a certain task, I let my engineering manager and manager be aware. I reflect on how to learn and improve on my mistakes;

2. Direction

Responsibility

Expected behavior

Innovation

I share new ideas and adapt my work when there is a change on the project or the team/company processes;

3. Talent

Responsibility

Expected behavior

Personal growth

I am open to listen and to act when I get a feedback from my engineering manager, manager or colleagues;
I am self-aware about my strengths and weaknesses (areas of improvement);
I have a high standard of excellence of my work;

4. Culture

Responsibility

Expected behavior

Communication

I write and speak clearly, without having seconds thoughts;
I listen to understand, instead of listen and talk for the sake of being right;
I share relevant information with my team that might reduce the team velocity including: concerns, technical debt, task difficulty, being late;

Collaboration

I can effectively collaborate and communicate to get the work done;
I work with my engineering manager and manager to manage conflicts without bringing it on personal level;

Organizational health

I listen to other people perspectives and tend not to rely on my personal biases;

5. Craft

Responsibility

Expected behavior

Testing fluency

I write test cases for a feature (even when no formal specification is provided);
I execute manual “black box” testing via the UI;
I identify bugs that are obvious;
My test cases effectively cover positive and negative scenarios, including basic edge cases;
My bug reports provide all of the details for the software engineer to investigate and solve it further;

Testing strategy

I plan and execute testing on small to medium sized features;

Quality assessment

I report status to the team including basic understanding of identified risks;

Quality advocacy

I understand who are the customers that the features are delivered to and work towards creating an impact on the delivered features;

6. Compensation

Base salary range: up to 731 EUR.