Effective Software QA'ing
Software testing and any other profession for that matter is a continuous learning process and every project that you do, would teach you something or the other. Such learning can then be taken along as you travel further into your career. Based on my experience in the industry so far, these are my thoughts about few essential qualities required in any software test professional. Be curious: Software testers need to be curious all the time, while understanding the product they are going to test, while deciding on what to test and how to test that, writing test cases, writing bug reports and even while convincing developers about why your bug is legitimate. Be open to learn: Any profession does require continuous learning and software testing is not an exception. In fact, software testing requires a bit more learning and knowledge upgrade than few of the other professions. Why so? A constant change is a property of the IT industry and with the pace that technology is changing