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Test and quality planning

Test and quality planning involves creating, following and adapting quality testing activities to ensure the quality of products, services and programmes.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain the value of quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
  • explain how different delivery methodologies affect quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
  • follow quality testing approaches, plans and strategies, with support
  • explain how to measure the effectiveness of quality testing approaches, plans and strategies, and why it’s important
2. Working

You can:

  • create or adapt quality testing approaches based on risk, with some support
  • follow a quality testing strategy and contribute to its development
  • contribute to continuous improvement of quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • work with teams to develop and implement appropriate quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
  • contribute to organisational quality testing strategies
  • implement ways to capture data to drive continuous improvement of quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
  • advocate for full team ownership of quality testing activities, encouraging early engagement
4. Expert

You can:

  • create and manage multiple quality testing plans, approaches and strategies
  • lead and guide multiple teams in adopting quality testing strategy
  • advocate for early quality testing involvement in organisational delivery processes
  • guide teams across an organisation in optimising quality testing approaches, plans and strategies by using appropriate data

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Associate quality assurance test analystQuality assurance test analyst4Awareness
Quality assurance test analystQuality assurance test analyst5Working
Senior quality assurance test analystQuality assurance test analyst6Practitioner
Lead quality assurance test analystQuality assurance test analyst8aExpert
Associate test engineerTest engineer4Awareness
Test engineerTest engineer6Working
Senior test engineerTest engineer7Practitioner
Lead test engineerTest engineer8aExpert
Test managerTest manager7Expert
Head of testTest manager8cExpert