Hi Everyone…I will join a new company within few days as a QA Engineer. and still curious to know How can I get productive as soon as possible once I joined the company. I am a little nervous about my joining.
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Naturally it will take you a while to get acquainted with the domain knowledge, their internal processes and policies, but what you can offer right from the start is a fresh perspective - as soon as you get familiarized (for example) with how they are reporting defects you can offer suggestions, and perhaps even suggest some improvements to the existing process. Talk to a lot of people and ask a lot of questions!
As @mirza said, talk to people and ask questions. See about running pre existing manual tests - this can help you see what’s been done in the past and help you navigate a new system, you might even find the odd bug in the system or be able to spot where tests need to be updated.
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From new hired QA I would expect to learn as much as possible about application(s) under test and to become familiar with manual and automation tests procedures. Sure, goals and expectations would be based on job level.
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Even if the automation is used for user interface testing, it is must that you have the knowledge of product first hand.
I understand by “productive as soon as possible” you mean you want to be the part of the team and start with daily tasks.
Well, the only way to do that would be to firstly getting the basic knowledge of the product and framework.
I recommend you gather a quick overview of the application and cover the basic topics which most of the scripts in automation are covering.
Then you should target the high priority test scrips and start debugging.
This is the quickest way to become familiar with the framework and next thing you know, you can actually start writing your own scripts.
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