Every flourishing industry, business entity, or company has a specific set of merits in the background that makes it fly high in the competitive market. There are some fixed standards and quality parameters that help retain the persona of every company. These merits or standards are for every person connected to that firm.

Similarly, in an automation testing company, quality has significant importance in every testing strategy and towards every testing strategist, we call testers. 

Testers are those genius creatures that hunt and kill bugs, no matter what corner they choose to hide.

A sharp-eye and a few must-haves make a perfect QA engineer for an SQA testing company.

But, ask yourself this, “Are your testers qualified enough to ensure maximum efficiency in your testing processes?”

Here are those 5 qualities that you should seek in your testers, or even ones you hire:

1. Do they ask relevant questions?

Curiosity is a key to the perfect and bug-free product. But do the testers in your company’s team ask the most relevant questions? Do they show interest in the newly invented technology? Do they ask about the ways to its execution? Do you observe their thought process evoking?

Well, if you have such skeptic heads in your organization, congratulations, you own some of the finest brainchildren that can help in building your company better.

If they are not curious about product development, then your clients will!

2. Detailed Mindset

Attention to detail is very important in testing since traceability coverage is a major step in achieving a successful SDLC. Though a detailed eye is an inborn capability, still it can be developed through persistence and consistency.

It is a blessing if your testing company has a set of testers that view even the minutest codes with a magnifying eye lens. Not everyone is born with it in their DNA, nonetheless, you can train your testers on how to put their attention to detail through various technical and psychological tactics.

3. Guts over Fear

Not quoting the Eminem’s rap ft. Sia but just adding in a quality that can precisely highlight another quality of a tester.

Testers sometimes get stuck in the “Tester’s Block Syndrome” and can’t decide if the thing in front of their screen is a bug or not. They get confused and do not report it in the fear of getting embarrassed later.

But, the testers in your company must know how to put guts over fear. They should believe in their intuitive power and should report that puzzling bug to the developers. Only the worst situation, in this case, is dev lads complaining testers for the petty misconfiguration. It is far, far better than feeling the fear and leaving the delusional bug swinging and waiting for it to get caught by the clients.

4. Logical Thinking

Logical thinkers are mandatory for your software testing company. If you have testers that only focus on converting phrases into requirements, documents into test cases, then they are wronged at a huge margin.

Testing does not happen on its own, nor logical thinking. There are other phases that require a critical approach like decision making, goal setting, brainstorming features, deciding test strategy and shortcuts, creating tests, fixing an issue, replicating production issues, reporting, etc.

Testers need to think out of the box, imagine the unimaginable, and ask questions that make sense. They should think of themselves as a Detective inspecting a tricky case. Remembering that everything leads them to the culprit, the bug. Without such thinking your company will stand stagnant in the progressive development of technology and its drifts.

Mainstream thinking is not meant for the intellectual QA testing!

5. Discipline and Constructive Talk

A good tester won’t ever prioritize ad-hoc testing and would rather focus on making a structure he would follow throughout the test cycle.

Disciplined teams are more concentrated on important problems; that is why they are less likely to miss obvious bugs. While constructive and clear communication keeps the company’s environment more harmonious and connected. Most of the times, the disciplined testers will have their own sought-out plan for every task, big or small, and they won’t go totally ad hoc and improvised.

Besides, how does he/she disciplines the test cases is another case. Because whenever a company hires an individual they are hiring a personality that will eventually become a part of their community. It is very crucial to analyze what that tester holds as a person since it is also significant to see if he/she would be able to maintain the discipline of your automation testing company or not.

We have provided you the top 5 qualities a tester must have, now you decide if testers in your company have these 5 potentials in them?