Acklen Avenue Senior Tester Criteria

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What is a Senior Tester?

A disciplined and experienced software tester who...

• Is a proven leader.
• Can communicate effectively.
• Cares deeply about quality and long-term maintainability of the product.
• Does not accept monotonous tasks, but seeks ways to automate and be more efficient.
• Is not intimidated by problems or new challenges, but actively seeks solutions.
• Does not accept roadblocks, but actively seeks ways around them.
• Recognizes the difference between under and over-doing a job and seeks a balance.
• Welcomes the chance, and when appropriate, seeks opportunities to mentor others.
• Others look to for guidance and help.
• Strives to understand product vision and encourages others to do the same.
• Understands and contributes to the vision of the overall development strategy in his/her project.
• Knows what it feels like to fail miserably, but pick yourself off again, learn from your mistakes and improve.
• Actively seeks to constantly improve himself/herself through reading, training, pairing, etc.
• Has demonstrated that he/she can listen to, research and understand business problems.
• Acts selflessly on behalf of the entire team to reach success.
• Is a master of exploratory testing.
• Understands where each type of testing fits into the overall testing strategy for any product.
• Has demonstrated the ability to design testing strategies for various forms of software projects.
• Can leverage the power of various tesing tools and techniques.
• Has demonstrated the ability to effectively design comprehensive test cases of features.
• Understands and contributes to the the vision of the overall testing strategy in his/her project.

• Scripting knowledge
• application architecture knowledge