Scrum QA Roles and Responsibilities
March 12, 2009 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: SCRUM
Scrum QA Roles and Responsibilities
By Aaron Sanders
Scrum QA Role definition
- Prevents defects from entering the system, as opposed to finding them at the end
- Facilitates building integrity into the software product and development process
Scrum QA Responsibilities
- Writes test plans which enforce the acceptance criteria of features
- Keeps all test plans and cases updated to changing requirements
- Continually integrates the code base with automated builds and functional-level regression tests
- Notifies when production is blocked due to errors in development
- Measuring Quality
- Defining Quality
- Improving Quality
- Enforces QA Best Practices
- Provides visibility into end-to-end product quality
- Owns QA Health status of releases/projects in SM dashboard
Aaron Sanders, always in the search for a better way to do business, has learned of Agile early in this decade, and incorporated its principles in his place of work. Recently, he was involved in pushing the definition of Agile to new levels at Yahoo! He is currently collaborating with organizations to steward the emergence of these Agile values and enable widespread adoption. Aaron Sanders writes extensively about Agile in his blog, constant change.
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