I’ve got my first job as manual tester. What advice you can give for me?

I’ve just got my first job as manual tester. I’m very happy right now, but I’m also worry too.

What advice you can give for a new tester like me so that I can be effective in work? What I should or should not do? Any other suggestion is welcome.

Thank you very much!

2 Comments

  1. Greg Farrow RTAP

    Have you seen our blog, we answer this exact question:

    Here:http://bestofthetest.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/introducing-testing-to-software-company.html

    And here: http://bestofthetest.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/an-introduction-to-testing.html

    I hope this helps!

  2. Thanh Huynh

    Hi Greg,

    Thanks for sharing. Those are good blog posts. Looking forward to more good post from you.

    Hi Lan,

    Great shared good points in his blog posts. You can take a look at them.

    As a new tester with new job, I suggest the followings to you:

    1. Spend most of your time and effort to get familiar with your system under test. You can do that by reading specs. If you don’t have specs, you can ask your peers or your boss for that. If there’s no spec at all, you can play around with the system and ask for unclear things. The more you know about the system, the better you are when testing
    2. Go extra mile. If you want to go far, you need to go extra mile. It means that you should be willing to do job more than what you expected. E.g.: If you are assigned a task and when you completed it before deadline, you can ask for more work if you are still having bandwidth. Avoid saying “this is not my job”
    3. Get to know your team well. Spend your time with your team member and build a good rapport with them.

    My 2 cents. Hope it helps.

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