The 3 Hats of QA Engineers: How to Wear Them Well

The 3 Hats of QA Engineers: How to Wear Them Well

Depending on where you work, the quality assurance engineer job title can cover a wide variety of roles and responsibilities. Are you ready to take them all on?

As a QA engineer, I've had the benefit of creating my role as I go, adding responsibilities and accountability for things that I think are important. Before I was hired, QA at my company existed solely as a tester role on specific, high-stakes projects. There were no stable QA processes, no continuous integration/continuous delivery, and very little ownership to go along with my responsibilities.

Because of that, I've ended up wearing three hats in my day-to-day work: testerDevOps engineer, and architect. I have readily taken on all three hats and learned both how to wear them and how to switch among them—and you can, too. Here's how.  

Continue reading about my experience and advice for QA haberdashery on Tech Beacon: https://techbeacon.com/3-hats-qa-engineers-how-wear-them-well

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