QA Skills

My Summary of QA skills for Junior/Senior QA Candidate

Junior QA

• Follows defined QA Process
• Prepares Bugs Reports, Status Reporting with all relevant information
• Manages and updates automation suite

Senior QA

• Self Organized
• Challenges the Environment, Raise testing standards by experimenting with new processes/Adopting new Tools
• Aware of Test Automation Framework Design and Development 
• Sound Technical Skills 
• Selfless - Volunteers/mentors team in terms of process/sharing best practices
• Actively involves/drives meaningful discussions and implements best practices  
• Takes calculated risks and delivers products meeting quality bar

Growing to a Test Architect Role

• What is a test architect?
• Test Architect

Impressive QA JD description - link


Every skill (DEV / QA / Automation) can be learned with interest and passion. This JD is a mix of DEV-QA-Automation. This is a very good write up.

One more interesting job-ad from link. Highlighted below are core skills / competencies. This co-relates to a lot of behavior traits

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