Quality assurance engineers apply their technical expertise and skills to oversee the entire software development lifecycle, verify the quality of the product and assess the overall user experience against a checklist specified by the client.

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Regardless of the software development task, successful candidates for the quality assurance engineer role will have impeccable technical skills. Experience in your industry and the processes involved in production or development will be a plus, especially if the candidate will be filling a lead role.

Beyond technical expertise in a specific field, quality assurance engineers often have certain personality traits that make them more suitable for the uniqueness of the position. Successful hires should have the innate ability to not only see how the software will be used under normal conditions but also be able to predict where software could be misused or go wrong in the future. A quality assurance engineer needs to be able to predict irrational human behavior that cannot be replicated by automated technical tests.

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