Day In The Life Of A Manual QA Software Tester

This will be an example 9–5 work day for a Manual QA Software tester in today’s world. The day to day may differ depending on the company, team size, as well as what part of a project or sprint your team is at.

9:00 AM — Morning Briefing/ Stand Up Meeting

The day typically starts with a a quick morning meeting for status updates. If your company has a dedicated QA team, the QA team gathers to discuss the tasks for the day. You review any updates from the development team, prioritize test cases, and plan your testing approach for ongoing projects.

If you are embedded as part of a development team, this team would involve your project team members including your developers, project managers, team leads and so on. Here every team member would discuss what they worked on the previous day, what they plan to work on today, and any problems they may be having.

These meeting helps align everyone on the team’s goals and ensures a coordinated effort throughout the day. Throughout your days team communication tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams might be used.

Project management tools such as Jira or Trello may be used to keep track of the team’s tasks.

9:30 AM — Test Case Review

Once the morning briefing is over, you may dive into reviewing and updating test cases. Test cases are documentation that states the different scenarios that will be tested for the project that you are working on. This review process can involve ensuring that test cases are up-to-date with the latest changes in the application and refining them for clarity and completeness or creating new test cases for scenarios that might have been missed or are part of an enhancement. When you are first starting out this may be written for you, but once you are more experienced you are going to be expected to do this on your own.

This documentation may be written in a project management tool like the ones mentioned earlier or in a dedicated test management tool like TestRail or Zephyr.

10:30 AM — Test Execution-Functional Testing

With the test cases prepared, it’s time to start functional testing. This involves testing to see if something functions or works as…