Choose your QA team member candidates with great care! Candidates’ skills, knowledge, temperament, attitude and communication abilities are key – and they don’t come cheap!
Remember, a good developer may not make a good tester – so start with experience. Your first QA hire should be a jack of all trades. Can they test the software and break it as well as develop sound QA practices?
In our experience, only 1 out of 8 software QA people is any good at it. If you have never hired QA people before, you’re 7 times more likely to get a bad one than a good one.
Provaré can help.
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