Test and quality planning

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

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• plan software testing (close match)
• quality assurance methodologies (narrow match)
• set quality assurance objectives (narrow match)

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