Design Feedback by Test Engineer

Now days companies are stressing more on design aspect. If design goes wrong or if anything got missed during design phase, that will be a big loss to company and none other than tester will bleed. Test engineer in recent times should concentrate more on design aspect of software. Need to develop skill on design pattern or design understanding, providing feedback on design to developers and artitects. Initially tester may not match with their skills but finding flaw in design a great win than finding number of defects during system functional testing phase. Share your thoughts :)

Writing conventional Test cases wont pay you much

During my 11 years of career i have met number of good to great testers. I met many testers in diffrent locations in india, UK and europe. One thing though shocking is quality of test cases. Though test engineer may be a great thinking tester but i saw lack of depth in test cases design. Its not that i write worlds best test cases but IMHO testing has changed a lot post 2010 and now companies and organizations worldwide expects testers to write more scenario (read user scenario) driven test cases.
This does not mean test cases should not concentrate on functionality but thinking test cases are crucial now days. Test cases should try to get hidden defects, that should be the moto while writing test cases.

Why coding is necessary now days for a tester

When a Tester talks in a meeting, you can observe peoples behavious how seriously they are taking your comments unless its not about bugs. In my opinion a testers should show below traits to earn respect like never before.

1. Code, Code and More code. If you can code, understand code and able to debug code then you are the King. Developer, PM will listen to you.
2. Understand business in and out (maximum you can), then others will listen to you.
3. Talk less but when you talk, talk design issue or a bug which can create havoc to client and you will be the Boss.

In changing economy job market IMO testers has to develop above skills throughly to gain more respect and everybody will notice.

Software Testing Changing Scenario

Yes, Software Testing is changing in comming times. I am not astrologer to say this, but yes industry for this is changing. Now Manualre the testing only things is going away or fading away slowly. I am going to share my experience and thoughts in this blog space. I expect experience and new testers can share their thoughts here freely.