A software quality analyst oversees and participates in testing new software to find errors or bugs. They may work directly with software or provide a program to run tests, and may also act as a mediator between testers and programmers.
The exact responsibilities of a software quality analyst can vary slightly depending on the type of work they are doing and how the company the analyst works for defines their position. However, in general, this analyst is responsible for overseeing and participating in the testing of new software under development in an effort to find errors or bugs. This process can be accomplished in a number of ways, including manual testing and using special software to run tests on the new program, which is typically handled by a software quality analyst.
A software quality analyst may also be referred to as a quality assurance analyst or software quality assurance technician. The way in which software testing is carried out can vary greatly from one software developer to another. In one environment, the software quality analyst can work directly with newly developed software, looking for bugs and errors and determining the ways in which these errors occur. An analyst in this capacity typically uses the software in normal and unusual ways, trying to find and replicate bugs to provide programmers with extensive documentation and reporting.
In other companies, however, a software quality analyst may not work directly with the software in question, but instead provides a program that runs the necessary tests. In this type of environment, the analyst analyzes the software that needs to be tested and creates a new program to run the tests or uses an established test program. The software quality analyst runs the program with the software designed to find errors and bugs in various ways. The information provided by this test is used by the analyst to produce reports and documentation to provide programmers with information about the errors encountered.
There may also be environments where the software quality analyst is not directly responsible for testing or running test software, but instead acts as a mediator between testers and programmers. In this type of position, the analyst is likely to work as a team manager for testers trying to find errors or bugs in the software. As the reports are prepared by the testers, they are provided to the software quality analyst who processes them. Analyst information is provided to programmers, usually in a form that has been simplified or otherwise made more useful to programmers, either through additional documentation or with regard to the significance of a bug found.
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