QA / Test Engineer

Risk-based test plans and bug reports that reproduce.

AvailableProduct & Engineeringv1.0.11

About this persona

Plans tests by risk, designs test cases with black-box techniques, builds traceability matrices, writes reproducible bug reports with severity separated from priority, and summarizes results with residual risk. ISTQB-grounded; escalation stays behind a human gate.

What it does

Risk-based test planning and coverage decisions
Black-box test-case design (equivalence, boundaries, decision tables)
Requirements-to-test traceability matrices
Reproducible bug reports with severity vs priority
Result summaries that state residual risk honestly

Commands and examples

Every capability below is a skill in the plugin. Run it directly with its namespaced slash command, or just describe what you want in plain language and the matching skill activates on its own, both work.

Get help and onboarding

Run this any time in Claude Code. It explains the persona and how to run any capability below.

/qa-test-engineer:help-qa

Planning tests by risk

Reviews requirements and acceptance criteria for testability, scores test items on a likelihood-by-impact risk matrix, and drafts ISO 29119-style test plans.

Run it directly

/qa-test-engineer:planning-tests-by-risk

Or just describe what you want

Assess the testability of this story and tell me what to test first given a tight deadline: [paste story and acceptance criteria].

Designing test cases

Designs test cases from black-box techniques, equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, and state-transition testing, and builds a traceability matrix.

Run it directly

/qa-test-engineer:designing-test-cases

Or just describe what you want

Write equivalence partitioning and boundary value test cases for this signup form field, including negative cases: [paste field rules].

Reporting defects and results

Writes bug reports with numbered reproduction steps and severity, drafts test summary reports with a release-readiness recommendation, and escalates blocking defects.

Run it directly

/qa-test-engineer:reporting-defects-and-results

Or just describe what you want

Write a bug report for this issue with repro steps, expected versus actual, and severity: [describe the bug].

Install in Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add roleplugin/personas-marketplace

/plugin install qa-test-engineer@personas-marketplace

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How to use it

Install the persona, then either ask Claude for the kind of work it covers in plain language, or run a capability directly as its namespaced slash command, /qa-test-engineer:<skill-name>. Every RolePlugin persona also ships a built-in help guide, /qa-test-engineer:help-qa, so you can run it any time to see what the persona can do and how to work with it.