Testing Life Cycle – Roles and Responsibilities

• Clear communication protocol should be defined with in the testing team to ensure proper understanding of roles and responsibilities.
• The roles chart should contain both on-site and off-shore team members.

Testing Life Cycle – Roles and Responsibilities
Test Manager

• Single point contact between on site and offshore team
• prepare the project plan.
• Test management
• Test planning
• Interact with onsite lead, Client QA manager.
• Team Management.
• Work Allocation to the team.
• Test coverage analysis.
• Co-ordination with onsite for issue resolution.
• Monitoring the deliverables.
• Verify readiness of the product for release through release review.
• Obtain customer acceptance on the deliverables
• Performing risk analysis when required
• Reviews and status reporting.
• Authorize intermediate deliverables and patch release to customer.

Test Lead

• Resolves technical issues for the product group
• Provide direction to the team member.
• Perform activities to the respective product group.
• Review and approve of test plan.
• Review test script/code.
• Approve completion of the integration testing.
• Conduct system/regression test.
• Ensure tests are conducted as per plan.
• Reports status to the offshore test manager.

Test Engineer

• Development of the test cases and scripts
• Test execution
• Result capturing and analysis
• Defects reporting and status reporting.