What is QA? What is the exact job in the IT industry?

Hussein Baashen
2 min readJun 30, 2020

QA stands for Quality Assurance usually, in the IT industry, the position name is called QA Analyst or Test Analyst. QA Analyst job scope is usually determined by your position if you are entering as a fresh graduate you will be given the job scope of doing test cases and learning the concept of test plans.

And it goes on through the number of experience you have, the job scope changes when you have quite good experience in the field you will be provided a wider range of job scopes like doing test cases, test plans, manual testing and some level of experience you will also do automation testing.

Usually, when you are quite experienced you will have the chance to choose your field of expertise like either doing only automation testing or only specializing in manual testing. When you specialize in the specific area of the testing it usually comes in handy due to your experience and field of expertise would give you the advantage in some companies.

Furthermore, as a QA Analyst, you will need certain values and skills to truly succeed in this area of the IT industry. Values and skills needed as a QA Analyst are listed below:

  1. Attention to detail
  2. Creative mindset
  3. Communication skills
  4. Writing skills
  5. Logic and reasoning abilities
  6. A meticulous approach to work

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