How to be a Good software Tester/QA Engineer

• Be a self learner about new technologies and new QA methodologies and keep an eye of development techniques as well.

• You should look at the products or projects that you have recently released and find out if you missed any defects (you will learn more about testing)

• You should be learning new techniques and studying new tools that are applicable.

• You should get off your butt and show some initiative.

• Dealing with developers to get the bug fix of other kind of QA activity is a skill. Try to understand the developer attributes and work according to that.

• Learn how to write effective test cases, Minimum number of test cases with maximum test coverage

• Never judge you team mates or rank them with you. Think that all the team members are equal since all of them working for same company and same company goals.

• Try to learn some programming languages and to some simple code, which will help you one day to be a good QA manager who understands Greek of developers?

• You should be experimenting with back-up and restore tools for your test lab
  such as Ghost, Drive Image, and Frisbee