How a QA Can Manage The Responsibilities of a BA In An Organization

Posted By : Kuldeep Sidana | 14-Apr-2018

Profession of a tester is to thoroughly test the developed software to ensure that the software meets the end to end requirement of the customer

A Business Analyst is equally responsible to inquire whether the built and delivered software fulfils the end user requirements. This aspect of BA, as well as QA, make it quite easier for a test engineer to shift career as a Business analyst role.

 

Why only Business Analyst?

 

Testers having the thorough knowledge and good understanding of the software and its become better along with the attention of every minute details.

By having this skill set and the good understanding of the process and of development lifecycle opens the door for a tester to become a manager, solution architect, automation engineer, senior manager and of course BA.

If we talk about today’s scenario to switch career as a business analyst is much more lucrative and promising one.

I would like to highly recommend BA as a career switch option for the testers if they have good analytical, communication skill and documentation, enjoy client interaction love to be globetrotter which like glamour in work profile.
 

Why it has an extremely good chance for a tester to become a wonderful Business analyst
 

There are many reasons for the testing professional to think about the career switch as a Business Analyst

  • A test engineer has an extremely excellent and deep understanding of software development built system and process and they give their attention to every minute details.
  • Testers always strive for the excellence and the quality delivery of the software.
  • The nature of the good testing professionals is to keep the client interests on the top of priority rest than other things.
  • Being a test engineer it's required to study, analyze and review the system requirement specification (SRS) which provides the additional advantage for pursuing the business analyst role.
  • The skill set and the excellent analytical skill of the tester helps the BA in finding out if any ambiguity lies in requirement specifications.
  • Test engineers are natural to be a critic in the testing process against the requirements. Testers visualize the processing system during the requirement gathering stage, due to that many unreasonable and undue requirements are caught out and rule out from the very initial phase.
  • A test engineer always thinks about the critical things as a big wholistic figure of the system. This is the biggest quality to help in business analysis during the requirement gathering especially.
  • If the tester working in the Agile model framework, then it is much easier for the career switch into BA.
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Kuldeep Sidana

Kuldeep Sidana is an orient QA Engineer having dexterity in Core Java and vouched with Automation Testing tool (Selenium Web Driver) and Manual Testing.

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