Outsource QA Specialist to the Philippines

Quality Assurance specialist skills and experience

A QA specialist, especially in the outsourcing world, is naturally a subject matter expert who knows the product or service inside out. Even if a candidate hasn’t worked in your specific field before, the process of evaluating and solving QA issues carries across industries.

Relevant work experience is essential to success as a Quality Assurance officer or specialist, more so than any particular degree. Simply put, the longer they’ve been in a QA role, the more situations they’ve seen and resolved.

Quality Assurance roles are evolving in terms of processes, scope of work, and the types of technology being used. QA teams have also expanded to meet the demands of operations within the BPO industry, whose numbers are still growing every year.

Software QA Specialistin the Philippines are relatively rarer, and the ease of recruiting largely depends on the technical expertise required for the role.

There are 3 levels based on tenure for Quality Assurance specialists:

• Junior – Has 1-2 years of being a QA specialist but spent a number of years being in the frontline before becoming a QA specialist

• Intermediate – Has 2-3 years of experience as a QA specialist

• Senior – Has 3+ years of experience as a QA specialist.

Quality Assurance specialist tools

While there are QA tools (applications) available online such as TestRail, most QA tools are internally developed, together with the CRM application developed by the company.

In the field of software QA specialist, the following applications are commonly used: