Software Testing Techie

This post is referred from ISTQB Agile certification syllabus plus I have included my own experience working in Agile environment as a Tester. Let's discuss about the skills first. I have categorized skills in two categories:  Technical Skills  Interpersonal Skills Technical skills include: Test automation : It is crucial to have at least a basic understanding of automation and the tools which are used for automating. Automation not only saves a lot of time and efforts but also, gives you quick defects on the newest build.  TDD (Test Driven Development) : This is used to develop code which is mainly guided by the automation. In other words, we call it "test-first" approach, so the test is written first and then code follows.  ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development): As the same suggests, this defines the acceptance criteria and helps developers, testers and business people to understand what they need to get the expected results. This approach incl...