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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Software QA and Testing

These are the 25 terms our scorer checks a Software QA and Testing resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • test plan
  • test case
  • test scenario
  • regression testing
  • functional testing
  • smoke testing
  • sanity testing
  • integration testing
  • system testing
  • uat
  • defect
  • bug tracking
  • jira
  • selenium
  • automation testing
  • manual testing
  • api testing
  • postman
  • performance testing
  • jmeter
  • test coverage
  • sdlc
  • stlc
  • traceability matrix
  • root cause analysis

The eight questions for Software QA and Testing

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many test cases do you own or maintain?
  2. 2.What proportion of your testing is automated, and where did it start?
  3. 3.How long does a full regression take, and have you shortened it?
  4. 4.How many defects do you raise in a release, and how many are valid?
  5. 5.Which frameworks and tools do you automate in?
  6. 6.How many releases have you signed off on?
  7. 7.How many escaped defects reached production, and what changed after?
  8. 8.How many developers or teams do you support?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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