| Testing Coverage Analysis |
Is able to assure the Testing Coverage in terms of the execution for functional and non functional requirements |
| Test Execution Planning |
Is able to plan and prioritize the suite and the test cases properly for different testing levels and environments |
| Risk Management |
Is able to identify risks and their mitigation plans |
| Traceability Management |
Is able to implement traceability based on Requirements, User Stories, Test Cases, and Bugs and also the usage of the Traceability Matrix |
| Sign-Off |
Is able to provide Sign-Off according to the defined Exit Criteria |
| Tasks Estimation |
Is able to take active participation in the planning, estimating tasks properly and validating with other team members. |
| Test Automation Readiness |
Is able to define the project conditions to implement test automation activities on any level |
| Test Automation Strategy |
Is able to define, document, and implement the correct test automation strategy |
| Test Strategies Definition |
Is able to define test strategies for different types of problems |
| Behaviour Driven Development |
Is able to design and execute Behaviour Driven Development test cases using the Gherkin language |
| Test Driven Development |
Is able to implement and execute Test Driven Development test cases |
| Test Case Design |
Is able to design test cases, including preconditions, priority, and the complete structure; and execute them in any one test automation library/tool |
| Automation good practices |
Is able to design automated cases following good practices |
| UI Automated Testing Design |
Is able to design and execute automated cases oriented to UI |
| Alternate UI Testing Design |
Is capable to understand, define, and implement alternate UI testing techniques validations |
| Accessibility Testing Design |
Is able to understand W3C ARIA notions, relationships, and rules depending each country, implementing/using test automation tools or custom solutions |
| Test Data Support |
Is able to apply “Data-Driven-Testing” to inject test data into the test. Is able to understand and apply also mocking strategies |
| Peer Review |
Is able to perform Test Cases review with other peers |
| Configuration Management |
Is able to define and implement a generic and extensible configuration for test automation projects |
| Security Data Management |
Is able to define and implement procedures and functionality to guarantee secure data is properly managed |
| Logging Tools |
Is able to configure and implement logging mechanisms |
| Page/Component/View Orchestration and Injection |
Is able to implement a reusable and scalable strategy for page and/or view modulation, considering the process of injecting page/view dynamically (if required). Using Inheritance or Composition as needed. Fluent interfaces. |
| Dynamic capabilities and property |
Is able to design a solid architecture considering available capabilities to support cross browser testing and/or mobile testing using multi-threading mechanisms providing a thread-safe context. |
| Element Synchronization |
Is able to introduce intelligent wait operations to handle both page and elements synchronization |
| Caching Support |
Is able to design caching mechanisms for data processing, data utilization, and performance improvements |
| DI & IoC Support |
Is able to introduce Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control |
| Localization Testing |
Is able to support localization testing requirements, enabling test and test data reusability to avoid test duplication in multiple languages, markets, and/or channels. |
| Test Retrying |
Is able to introduce test execution retry in an effective and intelligent manner, retrying execution upon certain test conditions or failure situations |
| Test Listeners |
Is able to understand and use listeners correctly and/or hooks for handling test execution stages and information in runtime. |
| Test Management Tool Integration |
Is able to integrate test automation framework with third-party tools such as Test Management Tools |
| Database Integration |
Is able to configure and implement relational/non-relational database support for storing/reading test data or for enabling database validation |
| Test Runners |
Is able to develop and execute test suites using test runners, running test in sequential or parallel |
| Cross Browsing Testing |
Is able to design and execute cross-browser automated cases |
| Unit Testing |
Is able to understand the test concepts in order to provide assistance to the Dev Team about Unit Testing Generation, improving test strategies and coverage. Applying also Mutation Testing to ensure the quality of the Unit Tests. |
| Component Testing |
Is able to implement component testing using Standalone Mock servers and tested it |
| Integration Testing |
Is able to design and execute Integration test cases, from BE to FE, and Business validations |
| UI Automated Testing |
Is able to implement and execute automated test cases for the UI testing platforms |
| API Automated Testing |
Is able to implement and execute automated test cases for API/Webservices |
| L&P Testing |
Is able to implement and execute L&P test cases/scenarios |
| Defect Reporting |
Is able to report a bug properly with the correct structure |
| Defect Classification |
Is able to set the bug Severity and Priority properly |
| Bug Triage |
Is able to perform Bug Triage |
| Handle Defect Lifecycle |
Is able to handle the Bug lifecycle |
| Defect Verification |
Is able to perform confirmation testing (bug verification) of bugs reported by other team members |
| Agile Testing |
Is able to understand how to manage the task following an Agile / Embedded approach, using an Agile tool and follow workflow as expected. |
| Test Cases Execution Report |
Is able to implement automated testing reports to provide details of the execution, tests, steps, errors, and evidence |
| Defects Reports |
Is able to share defect status with the stakeholders |
| Percentage of broken builds |
Is able to identify actual real application failures vs Code Test Failures |
| Flaky Test |
Is able to identify and track the root cause of the test failures so that they can be fixed quickly. Additionally, is able to identify flaky tests and provide solutions to mitigate unexpected conditions. (bad/dynamic locators, unstable API calls, hardcoded waits) |
| Percentage automated test coverage of total coverage |
Is able to generate total automation coverage w.r.t. total manual test cases |
| Test Coverage |
Is able to understand and measure testing coverage and take actions to improve quality and testing performance |
| ROI Analysis |
Is able to perform cost-benefit analysis before a tool is sourced or built. The ROI analysis should include recurring as well as one-time expenses. |
| Automation Candidates Test Cases |
Is able to identify test cases which are good candidates for test automation |
| CI/CD Concepts |
Is able to understand CI and CD and build a plan to include test automation as part of CI pipelines |
| CI Infrastructure / DevOps |
Is able to perform Containers creation, setup, and orchestration, Virtual Machines creation, setup, and orchestration |
| Continuous Testing Design |
Is able to design the strategy/process for the different testing phases/environments on a CI/CD pipeline, understanding and setting quality gates. |
| Continuous Testing Orchestration |
Is able to create, configure and update CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing |
| OOP |
Is able to understand concepts for Object Oriented Programming |
| Design Patterns |
Is able to understand design patterns: creational, behavioral, and structural patterns, and use them correctly. |
| Programming Basics |
Is able to understand basic programming concepts for variables, objects, flow Structures and basic algorithms |
| Design Principles & Techniques |
Is able to understand and apply principles such as SOLID, YAGNI, DRY, KISS, etc. |
| Developing Good Practices |
Is able to apply good practices such as Documentation, Styling, Naming conventions, Clean Code, etc. |
| Debugging |
Is able to debug code and understand errors and stack traces |
| Building/Packaging |
Is able to manage building tools and plugins to configure the project and its dependencies, understanding the building life-cycle tasks such as clean, compile, test, package, publish, etc. |
| VCS (Version Control System) |
Is able to manage VCS tool to track changes in software project and coordinate work among programmers such as committing files, pushing files, pulling changes and merging/rebasing. |
| Communicator |
Is able to communicate in a clear and concise way ideas to technical and non-technical audiences and with colleagues across all areas |
| Forward Thinker |
Is able to define a purpose/objective and pursue it, regardless of the problems, obstacles, and frustration that might appear. It is related to planning, organization and being a forward thinker. |
| Risk Communicator |
Is able to clearly communicate project status and issues to the right audiences to get the desired outcome. Is able to communicate with the team and the client identifying risks and contingency plans. |
| Constructive Outcomer |
Is efficient and nimble when solving problems, with indicative, corrective actions and common sense to facilitate the pursuit of constructive outcome and shared understanding. |
| Satisfactory Agreements |
Is able to identify the position in the negotiation of every party involved, takes into account different points of view, and reaches satisfactory agreements based on a win-win approach. |
| Fast Learner |
Is able to work without the need for direct guidance applies proper judgment to difficult situations and makes decisions, performing the assigned responsibilities with independence. |
| Agile Learner |
Is able to adapt and adjust to changing circumstances or environment, using effective mechanisms to be able to handle pressure, learning from experience and keeping up the performance level. |
| Proactive Action |
Is able to fully engage with the role and project goals. Is proactive and has positive attitude when new challenges arise onto the project.Is able take corrective action based on the lessons learned. |
| Test Management Activities |
Is able to manage the testing activities during a SDLC |
| Test Plan Management |
Is able to create a Test Plan, identify its different components and work based on it |