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How can you collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure?

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Testing infrastructure is the foundation of any software testing process. It includes the tools, frameworks, environments, and configurations that enable you to run and manage your tests effectively. However, testing infrastructure is not a static or isolated component. It requires constant collaboration and communication between QA engineers and other stakeholders, such as developers, product managers, and operations teams. In this article, you will learn how to collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure and improve the quality and efficiency of your software testing.

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1 Define clear roles and responsibilities

One of the first steps to collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure is to define clear roles and responsibilities for each team member. This will help you avoid confusion, duplication, or overlap of tasks and ensure that everyone knows what they are expected to do and deliver. For example, you can assign specific roles for creating, maintaining, and updating testing environments, test data, test scripts, test frameworks, test reports, and test automation. You can also use tools like Jira, Trello, or Asana to track and assign tasks, set deadlines, and monitor progress.

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Ayush Srivastava

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Collaborating with QA Testers on testing infrastructure is the foundation for ensuring the testing process. Here you can follow these strategies: - Regular communication with QA Engineers This can include Daily Standups, weekly syncs, and ad-hoc discussions. - Discuss the test environments and test tools for the project. - Define the automation coding standards followed by both developers and QA teams. - Conduct joint code reviews with QA Engineers to ensure the testing infrastructure is clean and maintained.

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2 Establish common standards and guidelines

Another way to collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure is to establish common standards and guidelines for your testing processes and practices. This will help you ensure consistency, quality, and compatibility across your testing infrastructure and avoid potential issues or conflicts. For example, you can agree on common coding styles, naming conventions, documentation formats, testing methodologies, testing tools, testing frameworks, testing levels, testing types, testing coverage, testing metrics, and testing quality criteria. You can also use tools like GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket to store, share, and review your code and test artifacts.

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Sukanya Santhanakrishnan

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Common guidelines will help the team to follow such standards in order to work on and deliver better quality product. It helps the team to be consistent and understandable towards the process. When the team has different perspective towards the established standards, discuss with them and work on it what suits for the team to deliver in a better way.

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3 Communicate frequently and transparently

A third way to collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure is to communicate frequently and transparently with them and other stakeholders. This will help you build trust, alignment, and feedback loops and ensure that everyone is on the same page about the goals, expectations, and status of your testing infrastructure. For example, you can use tools like Slack, Zoom, or Teams to communicate in real-time, share updates, ask questions, report issues, request support, and provide feedback. You can also use tools like Confluence, Google Docs, or Wiki to document and share your testing infrastructure details, plans, and results.

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Saravanan Seenivasan

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effective communication and collaboration is key of success - communicate everyday begging of the day - plan as team and work as a team - have dedicated group channel or placeholder for chat and discussion - do proper handshake everyday so it will be clear to each other - have the discussion transparent and confirm everyone understood and following the same - make it's as practice - use the tools that available in our infrastructure to make the communication is better way

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Muhammad Immad Aamir

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It's worth emphasizing the importance of empathy & mutual respect in working relationships. Understanding each other's perspectives & valuing each other's contributions can further strengthen collaboration. Additionally, adapting to changing requirements & being open to process improvements are important factors to consider.

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4 Automate and integrate as much as possible

A fourth way to collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure is to automate and integrate as much as possible your testing processes and activities. This will help you save time, reduce errors, increase reliability, and enhance collaboration. For example, you can use tools like Jenkins, Travis CI, or CircleCI to automate and integrate your test execution, test reporting, and test deployment. You can also use tools like Selenium, Cypress, or Appium to automate your functional tests, performance tests, and mobile tests. You can also use tools like Postman, Rest Assured, or SoapUI to automate your API tests.

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- identify the more time spent on daily repeated work and try to automate it to save the daily time - integrate the test with pipeline such as smoke, healthcek - make the enterprise level test setup so other team can adopt - Integrate test results with possible sharing channel such as Slack, Teams, etc.. - get automated notification on failures and services down

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5 Learn from each other and improve continuously

A fifth way to collaborate more effectively with QA engineers on testing infrastructure is to learn from each other and improve continuously your testing skills and knowledge. This will help you foster a culture of learning, innovation, and improvement and ensure that your testing infrastructure evolves with your software needs and standards. For example, you can use tools like Udemy, Coursera, or Pluralsight to learn new testing tools, frameworks, or techniques. You can also use tools like Medium, Stack Overflow, or Reddit to read, write, or discuss testing topics, best practices, or challenges. You can also use tools like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, or Feedbackify to collect, analyze, or act on feedback from your peers, customers, or users.

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Sukanya Santhanakrishnan

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Everyone has come from the different background and has different thoughts. Have a knowledge sharing session between the people in the project and learn from each other. It provides various perspectives when the collaboration happens to improve the process and product value. Self-learning plays a major role on finding one's passion and improves continuously to focus on their career and to the company. It gives to way to meet the like-minded people when they try to interact with the community.

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1 Define clear roles and responsibilities

2 Establish common standards and guidelines

3 Communicate frequently and transparently

4 Automate and integrate as much as possible

5 Learn from each other and improve continuously

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5 Learn from each other and improve continuously

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