When I got my first QA Engineer job out of college at a small financial company, I did what any new grad would do. I googled “QA process.” Then I googled “what should a QA process look like.” Then I googled “how to build a QA process from scratch.” I read a lot of articles....
For over a year I sent a test plan at the start of every sprint. Same format, same sections, shared in the same Slack channel every time. In all that time, maybe one or two of them got a comment from anyone outside the QA team. Not from product. Not from engineering. I kept sending...
Most test plans I’ve seen start with scope before talking about risks. Here’s what we’ll test, here’s what we won’t. Which is fine, except it skips the question that actually drives all of it: what are the risks we’re trying to protect against? I write sprint-level test plans one per sprint, covering everything QA is...
