How to Be An SQA Engineer(Series Part 1)

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✏️ Journey of An SQA Engineer ✏️

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Asslam-u-Alaikum!

Fellows My name is Mateen Fatima and I am a Software Engineer.I wanted to start a journey here In which we are going to handle the hardles In career paths that a Student face.In this journey we are going to Learn till we succeed.When we graduare many of us have a lot of questions in their minds.We always thinks where Should we go as an IT student we Find many Paths some of them are listed.

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1. Software Developer (Web, Mobile, Desktop)
2. Quality Assurance Engineer (Manual & Automation)
3. Data Analyst / Data Scientist
4. Cybersecurity Specialist / Ethical Hacker
5. Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer
6. Network Administrator / System Administrator
7. Blockchain Developer
8. AI / Machine Learning Engineer
9. IT Consultant / Freelance Developer
10. IT Lecturer / Research Scientist

Our Focus is on the Manual Testing. This is our start so do not worry how difficult it will be.We will Start from basics.

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Fundamentals...📚

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(Software Quality Assurance)

SQA (Manual Tester)

Day 1:

Focused subjects ( SQE, DEVOPS, S.E, SRE, SDA)

Software:

Set of instructions written in any programming Language (Python,C++,Java) that helps to tell computer what to do.

Types:

1. ⇒ system software → Not directly interacted by
   us like OS, Audio drivers, Drivers,

2. ⇒ Programming Software → Compilers, C++, Powershell,

3. Application Software
   ⇒ Web Application, Mobile Application,
   (like Gmail, whatsapp, Calculator, Twitter, Notes etc)

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System Software..📚

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⇒ Control computers Internal functions also consists hardware devices like Operation System, Mouse,
Keypad, bluetooth, language processor)

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Programming Software..📚

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⇒ Compile & run programming compilers, Debuggers,
Command Prompt, Powershell.

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Application Software..📚

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Our Major Focus is on Application software that help end users to perform any task.

Gmail ⇒ Help in Professional Communication.
Notes ⇒ Help to save important things.
Whatsapp ⇒ Help in communication worldwide.

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Software Testing..📚

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Software is working according to the requirements. The actual results are same as expected results.

Objectives:

⇒ Improve Quality of the software
⇒ Activity to detect the bug.
⇒ Requirements should be properly filled.
⇒ Find failures, faults and errors.

Quality Software:

⇒ Delivers timely.
⇒ Within Budget
⇒ meet requirements
⇒ Maintainable.

Important Skills Needed....

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QA/QC..📚

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Soft Skills:

(Communication)

(ownership)

(Manageable)

(work under
pressure)

(conflict
resolution)

Hard Skills:

Knowledge of Domain

Testing Process

JIRA

Bug Tracking

Creativity to write
Test Cases.

Analytic skills.

Importance:

⇒ Quality
Product

⇒ Product
Efficiency

⇒ Cost Effective
(Part of SDLC).

QA Basics:

Quality Assurance (QA) = Process to prevent defects.
Quality Testing (QT) = Process to detect defects.
Testing = Processing to check if software works
correctly.

Examples:

QA ⇒ Guidance for making a cake
QC ⇒ Testing the cake to check if its sweet.
Testing ⇒ Checking each ingredient before Baking.

SDLC: (Software Development Lifecycle)

Requirements → Design → Implementation → Testing → Deploy-
ment → Maintainance.

(QA have the role in every phase)

STLC: (Software Testing Lifecycle)

Requirements → Test Planning → Test Design Environment
Setup → Test Execution → Defect Reporting → Test
Closure.

So this was the overall overview of the terms we should Know.We will talk about them furthur in next lessons.Happy Learning!😊