How to Become Best QA Lead

Quality Assurance, Business

Becoming QA Lead is not just how Effective and good tester you are, But Once you’re a great tester you need to develop specific skills to become effective in a QA Lead role.QA lead is different than only testing its team work.

Following is Steps to become Best QA lead

Effectively manage a test team.
Understand the testing process.
Implement a testing process.
Define scope of testing in projects.
Deploy and manage test frameworks.
Implement and record QA metrics.
Manage and select QA tools & processes.

“Good” is a very subjective term… I may be good at testing but not good enough for others, your peers or managers… Good is like “cake icing”. It depends on you, how to value add in your current role or work. Remember that value add is always with undocumented specifications, either its “item under test” or job profile.

Following is Core Skills to Become QA lead

1. Having An Effective Communication Skill

Excellent written as well as verbal communication is the most pivotal skill for QA Lead. As a QA manager, you need to:

Effectively report the overall status of his team to higher management.
Ability to communicate properly with non-technical as well as technical people, especially explaining the technical challenges to the management team.

2. Problem Solving

Problem-solving ability is a crucial skill for QA Lead to deal with such unprecedented scenarios effectively.

If your project is developing a web application, the most common issue often faced is cross browser compatibility testing. If your project is in Agile, cross browser compatibility may not be specified in the requirement but may come as an enhancement request later on, once a demo is scheduled and the stakeholder finds out that the application is failing to render on the certain browser running on specific devices.

It is a best practice to incorporate the execution of cross browser testing in every sprint since it will take a lot of effort to do the testing of the entire application if cross browser compatibility comes later on as an additional request.

3. Visualization & Prioritization Of Business Scenarios

A QA Lead must be able to get an abstract idea from the client provided specs and visualize a real-time business situation. He must also be able to be ready for a knowledge sharing session with either his team or higher management if the situation arises. In short, the manager must also be able to play the role of a business analyst.

4. Time Management – Crucial in the Agile World

If you want to become a good QA Lead, you should be able to adapt yourself as well as your time to keep in pace with the Agile world. You must always be ready to deal with the client whenever any critical change in the requirement arrives.

5. Willingness To Help Your Team Members Grow As An Individual

This is one skill for QA Lead that is often missed out by many. Stress is always going to be a part of your company, due to narrow project deadlines. However, you should not stop individual growth for any resource who is working under your team. As a QA Lead, you should remember to help your team members grow in their career. So that eventually when they become a manager, they follow you as an inspiration and help their resources, the same way as you did.

So, What Makes A Good QA Lead?

Is it technical skills, the certifications, years of experience in software testing or keeping up with the current testing trends such as Shift-left testing, Automation testing and more. Well, you need all of that, but most importantly you need an ability to create and work with a creative team where each and every member is equally valuable and irreplaceable for the organization.

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