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Technical skills, self-assessment,

and improvement actions

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 Content
1. What is the meaning of Skill?
2. Categories of Skill
3. Technical skills
4. Soft skills
5. Why do we need skills?
6. When should we improve our skill?
7. How do we improve our skill?
8. Self-assessment of Technical skills
9. Improvement actions
10. Let’s practice
11. Sharing

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What is the meaning of Skill?

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Categories of Skill

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 Technical skills

Test planning • Estimating & writing test plans

& Control

Requirement • Reviewing & Contributing spec

analysis • Writing Q&A in a clear, objective way

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 Technical skills
• Deriving test cases from spec
• Applying various testing techniques
appropriately to given scenarios (ex:
decision table, BVA, pair-wise)
Test Design & • Using a tool to test a given API
(positive & negative tests)
Implementation • Using SQL to find & alter database
information to test a given scenario
• Designing a test automation harness
that will execute multi tests & gather
test results
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 Technical skills
• Executing manual tests & troubleshooting
failures
• Executing automated tests &
troubleshooting failures
• Demonstrating an understanding of defect
Test execution classification
• Assessing failure & documenting it
accurately
• Demonstrating an understanding of root
causes of defect
Evaluating exit • Writing a test summary reports that includes
criteria & reporting an assessment of the test results 8
 Soft skills
Communication

Resolving
Motivating
problem

Soft skills

Sharing
Team work
knowledge

Interviewing

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 Why do we need skills?

Getting the job Enhancing

Achieving the
done faster, professional
desires at work
better qualifications

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When should we improve our skill?

Job
improvemen
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Personal
Job
improvemen
requirement
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Alway
s

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How do we improve our skill?

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 Self-assessment of Technical skills

1 - Beginner 2 - Average 3 - Skilled

• Common knowledge/an • Experience gained in a • Successfully complete
understanding of basic classroom/experimental task.
techniques & concepts scenarios/ as a trainee • Need help from an
on-the-job. expert, but usually
• Focus on learning • Need help when perform independently
performing this skill.
• Focus is on applying &
• Focus on developing enhancing
through on-the-job knowledge/skill
experience
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 Self-assessment of Technical skills

4 - Specialist 5 - Expert

• Perform without assistance. • An expert in this skill

• “A person to ask" when difficult • Provide guidance, troubleshoot &
questions arise regarding this skill. answer questions related to this skill.

• Focus is on broad • Focus is strategic

organizational/professional issues

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Improvement actions

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 Let’s practice
• https://wiki.linecorp.com/display/LINEVNDEV/Self-assessment+of+Ski
lls

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