?What Makes a Good Tester

Communication skills – both verbally and written.

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Ability to Self-Learn

Flexibility

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Every person in the team, especially a tester, needs to be able to communicate clearly and accurately, without going around in circles and knowing how to differentiate between the noise and the important stuff in their message.

Each member of the team needs to understand the purpose, requirements and constraints of the business; after all we are part of a larger team with one sole purpose or mission

Able to take a new subject: methodology, feature or a tool, and learn it by themselves, looking for materials available on the web, books, or whatever other place they may find them.

Attributes required from a professional tester in today’s environment.

Able to do more than one job and who won’t find ANY JOB bellow their taste or abilities.

A tester should poses that delicate balance between understanding when they are wrong (and letting go) and when they need to be persistent with their peers, managers and other stakeholders.

Technical Skills in the product areas they worked in previously.

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Able to write clear &complete testing scenarios

Bug reporting skills

Tools – any tools regardless if they are testing-tools, db-tools, sniffers, etc.

At the end of the day it is better to have a great person who can become a good tester, than a “great” tester who will never be a good part of your team.

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