The role of Tester in Scrum Team

The role of Tester in Scrum Team


The role of a tester in the Scrum Team is elementary and straightforward but often misjudged. There are only three roles in Scrum, and they hold different responsibilities. The tester is part of the cross-functional development team. The role of a tester is to contribute to the product quality just like any other development team member. 


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Who is a Tester?

A tester is a person who is responsible for identifying the process to test the product and ensures that the product meets its specifications or requirements. Testers are "Customer Advocates" because they use and test the products from the customer perspective. They are responsible for finding out defects or bugs in the product, which is under test and thereby helping to improve the product quality. They are User proxies who are responsible for ensuring the product under development solves the problem of the users in the context they use. 


Wrong Assumption of Tester role:

Testers get misjudged as "Gate Keepers" of quality for a very long time. Its a myth. In many projects, only when the testers/testing team approves, the project will be released. They were also considered as "Quality Police" and treated as such in the product development. There were even stories of Testers stopping a release by giving a "No-Go" because of few bugs not fixed by the programmers. These are all myths or wrong understanding about the role of testers. Right from defining the requirements, programming, testing, deploying, staging, and maintenance, everyone is responsible for product quality and not just testers. 













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