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My personal QE Assessment

2 min readJun 11, 2025

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This past year I have experimented with creating a quality engineering assessment for my own personal use. Based on the Test Maturity Model. To figure out what needs looking at. I created an excel sheet and marked items from 0–4. The details of it are posted further below.

I found it useful in terms of exploring gaps and opportunities. For example initially there was no formal QE Peer Review Process, so we introduced that or combined functional/non functional strategies into a single QE strategy. I found it useful for me personally. I did not share it with the wider team (as it was my personal notes to figure out what I should focus on). It is a list I will definitely be scanning through. For example “success stories” is a good one to share the great things QE has been doing, so to ensure that it is done regularly.

I’d also like to note a blog post that I read recently by Suzanne. This is another way that you could potentially look at things, which I really enjoyed reading.

The scale:

0 — Nothing ; 1 — Initiation. 2 — Growing : 3 — Competent : 4 — Optimising

QE Strategy

  • QE strategy
  • Environment strategy
  • Test data strategy
  • customer focus

Continuous Testing

  • Testing stages
  • Risk analysis
  • Quality Metrics
  • Automation
  • CI/CD pipelines

Test Planning

  • Scope
  • Team planning (future look)
  • Schedule
  • Estimation
  • Coverage
  • Design & Execution
  • Tooling

Result Analysis

  • QE Peer review
  • Team peer review
  • Reporting
  • Success stories

Team dynamic

  • In team collaboration
  • Across team collaboration

Continuous Improvement

  • Process (like doing a retro)
  • Accountability — following through with an action

Team

  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Skills and skill gap
  • QE team work
  • Inclusion
  • Perception of the team

Processes

  • CAB
  • Requirements Review
  • Regression

Quality as a culture

  • Do people take pride/jump in and help etc
  • Define what good looks like (entry exit criteria etc)

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Melissa Fisher
Melissa Fisher

Written by Melissa Fisher

Thinking outside the box and disrupting people's thinking.

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