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Senior QA Engineer
Broader ownership: quality strategy for a product area, mentoring, and risk-based decisions.
Starting level: QA Engineer with 3+ yearsTarget role: Senior QA EngineerJourney: 6–12 months
Core skills
- Risk-based test strategy and coverage analysis
- Requirement review and shift-left practices
- Root cause analysis and defect prevention
- Mentoring and code review of test code
- Reporting quality signals to stakeholders
Recommended technologies
- Your existing automation stack
- CI/CD pipelines
- Test management tooling
- Observability and log analysis tools
Practice labs
- Write a one-page test strategy for a live feature
- Run a defect trend analysis over the last three releases
Projects
- A quality dashboard: coverage, escape rate, flakiness and cycle time for one product area
Interview preparation
- How you decide what not to test
- Handling a release with known open defects
- Examples of prevention, not just detection
Suggested next step
- QA Lead or Quality Architect
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