Class KVALIT19.

Occupational roles Occupational role 1: Software Tester (Quality Assurance) Occupational role 2: Test Automation Engineer Occupational role 3: Technical Tester Occupational role 4: Test Manager, IT The graduate has knowledge of... - The IT industry's various areas within quality control and testing - How the IT systems development process is structured, its sub-steps and work roles - The test process: test planning and test methods, test management, control and reporting - Scripted testing, exploratory testing and testing in different development methods - Test levels, e.g. system test, acceptance test - Test tools: analysis and evaluation, when test tools are used and different groups of test tools - Requirements and traceability, how requirements analysis and requirements specification are linked to quality control and testing: methods and techniques for requirements gathering, types of requirements tools, and how to convert requirements into effective and valid test cases - Test automation - Performance testing, test cases and test execution, bug reporting, test documentation and templates - Setting up test environments - The basics of object-oriented programming, design and code analysis - The structure of software architecture and the development process: build, test, deploy - Methods and standards in web development - Network communication, security and server programming in backend systems The graduate has skills in... - Test software, use manual and automated test methods, and make practical use of relevant combinations of test tools - Design tests with the most common test design techniques - Define a test environment based on a real-world test case - Choose guidelines for quality control of test assignments, and present them - Apply object-oriented analysis and design based on the needs of an organization or a project - (OOAD), develop applications, and debug their code - Design simpler database systems, and handle different methods for database storage structure and transaction management - Develop simpler web applications, and create a simpler application for business purposes based on a given description - Work against an existing backend and relevant APIs in the field - Plan a smaller IT test project and communicate it - Interpret given requirements and link them to valid test cases, evaluate requirements and their testability in a test project, and communicate the evaluation to the requirement owners - Communicate problem statements and solutions in both Swedish and English to customers and colleagues The graduate has the competence to... - Independently plan their tasks and work actively in the occupational role, and take an active part in a work group - Independently plan, estimate time for, document, carry out and monitor a test project - Formulate and develop strategies for database development, and choose test methods suited to a given situation, then plan, design and document them - Collaborate with colleagues, customers and suppliers to deliver services over the long term that create satisfied customers - Independently handle practical and theoretical tasks in quality assurance and testing in a way that leads to further learning and professional development in the occupational role