A professional who embraces change, collaborates well with both technical and business people, and understands the concept of using tests to document requirements and drive development. You have good technical skills, know how to collaborate with others to automate tests, and are also experienced exploratory testers. You are willing to learn what customers do so that they can better understand the customers’ software requirement.
- Experience writing black box and GUI test cases, designing tests to mitigate risks, and helping business experts define requirements
- Experience writing simple SQL queries and insert/update statements and basic grasp of SQL Server or another relational database
- At least one year of experience with some scripting or programming language and/or open source test tools. Knowledge of C# or VB.NET is a plus.
- Ability to use command line commands
- Experience collaborating with programmers and business experts
- Experience in context-based, exploratory, or scenario testing a plus
- Ability to work as part of a self-organizing team in which you determine your tasks on a daily basis in coordination with coworkers rather than waiting for work to be assigned to you
- Experience with Visual Studio Test Professional (Test Manager) is a plus
Skills are important, but attitude counts more.