{"id":22930,"date":"2017-02-17T02:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=22930"},"modified":"2024-11-16T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T14:41:35","slug":"what-makes-a-good-test-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/what-makes-a-good-test-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good test engineer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Good test engineers have a &#8220;test to break&#8221; attitude, they take the point of view of the customer, have a strong desire for quality and an attention to detail. Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers and an ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people. Previous software development experience is also helpful as it provides a deeper understanding of the software development process, gives the test engineer an appreciation for the developers&#8217; point of view, and reduces the learning curve in automated test tool programming.<\/p>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<p>John is a good test engineer because he:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has a &#8220;test to break&#8221; attitude<\/li>\n<li>Takes the point of view of the customer<\/li>\n<li>Has a strong desire for quality<\/li>\n<li>Has attention to detail<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s Tactful and diplomatic<\/li>\n<li>Has good a communication skill, both oral and written.<\/li>\n<li>Has previous software development experience, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Good test engineers have a &#8220;test to break&#8221; attitude, they take the point of view of the customer, have a strong desire for quality and an attention to detail. Tact and diplomacy are useful in maintaining a cooperative relationship with developers and an ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people. Previous software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing-questions","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23217,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22930\/revisions\/23217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}