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QA Tester Intern

Product Goal

Establish rigorous quality assurance gates to protect the stability and brand equity of CampusConnect.

Tech Stack & Tools

JiraCypress/PlaywrightPostmanChrome DevTools

Weekly Deliverables

W1

The Master Test Plan

Author a comprehensive Master Test Plan document outlining the software testing scope, environment criteria, and manual test pass/fail metrics.

W2

The Postman Integration Test Collection

Build an automated test suite within Postman that tests the Dev intern's API endpoints for proper HTTP status codes and JSON response payloads.

W3

The Manual Test Case Suite

Write 50+ individual manual test steps covering edge-case registration inputs, password resets, and broken media uploads.

W4

The Jira Bug Tracking Environment

Spin up the team's Jira bug tracking board, design a custom issue template (Expected vs. Actual results, steps to reproduce), and log the first 10 UI bugs.

W5

The Cypress E2E Automation Script

Code functional end-to-end automated test scripts using Cypress that simulate a user logging in and adding an item to their cart.

W6

The Cross-Device Matrix Report

Run manual compatibility tests across various mobile browsers (Safari, Chrome, Android WebViews) and log layout breaking points.

W7

The Regression Verification Log

Re-run all test cases against the Dev intern's newest bug-fix builds, documenting resolved vs. reopened issues in a regression spreadsheet.

W8

The Soft Launch Smoke Test

Execute a 20-minute rapid "Smoke Test" on the production URL live deployment to guarantee core workflows work before users arrive.

W9

The Stability Scorecard

Author the final Quality Assurance Clearance Certificate, mapping total bugs caught, average time-to-resolution, and known low-priority items.