Test process and strategy, test data, environments, reporting, impact analysis, test review, test management and QA team management.
Test process and strategy: risk-based testing, test strategies, Definition of Done, smoke gates, test pyramid balance, effort estimates and post-mortems. Also covers E2E suite budgets, test ideas from stories and live features, framework choice, and attack-surface checklists. Agents (release-readiness-checker, quality-coach, release-engineer) run multi-gate go / no-go checks, audit work against the Definition of Done, and walk a release runbook with human gates.
QA team management for QA managers and heads of quality: skill matrices with gap analysis, quality status digests, structured hiring, and exec narratives. Covers capability mapping per ISTQB CTAL-TM v3.0, the hiring chain from job description to 30-60-90 onboarding, and Minto-pyramid quality narratives. An agent (qa-manager) produces the weekly red / amber / green status digest from CI, tracker, and quarantine data.
Test data engineering: Faker and factories, WireMock and MSW API mocks, seed datasets, golden files, and boundary, pairwise and negative test inputs. Includes FactoryBot, Mimesis and Bogus, a Mountebank reference, synthetic PII, and a malicious payload bank. Agents (golden-file-manager, test-data-setup-agent) maintain snapshot baselines and set up a feature's full test-data layer.
Test environment setup: Testcontainers and Docker Compose services, Playwright fixtures, database snapshot and restore, and flag-aware test harnesses. Agents (test-environment-bootstrapper, db-snapshot-restore) wire a full integration environment for a greenfield service and reset the database between tests. Shared-state diagnosis composes with e2e-flake-bisector in qa-flake-triage.
Test impact analysis: run only the tests a change affects, and keep the regression suite lean with evidence-based test removal. The selector cuts per-PR run time; a curation agent (regression-suite-curator) reviews per-test signal and noise at quarterly and sprint grains, gated by the removal criteria.
Test case management for TestRail, Xray, Zephyr Scale, Allure TestOps and Qase: case authoring, ISO 29119-3 case anatomy, and traceability matrices. Agents (test-case-quality-critic, tcm-migration-agent) audit test cases against the review rubric and migrate cases between tools. Covers pre-execution case management; result sync lives in qa-test-reporting.
Test reporting and coverage analytics: JUnit XML, LCOV and Cobertura parsing, Allure reports, coverage diffs, and test run summaries for pull requests. Also covers JaCoCo and coverage.py analysis, risk-ranked coverage targets, TestRail / Xray / Zephyr Scale result sync, and Currents analytics. Agents (daily-test-suite-aggregator, release-quality-report-agent) roll up daily results across suites and assemble a release-quality go / no-go report. Jest and Vitest coverage lives in qa-unit-tests-js.
Test code review for test files only: conventions, isolation, object-model patterns, framework architecture audits, and test suite health checks. Includes a framework blueprint for new suites and a test design scorecard. Agents (test-code-critic, e2e-selector-quality-critic, framework-architecture-auditor, test-suite-health-auditor) review structure, assertions and mocking, selector fragility, framework architecture, and suite health. Production code is out of scope.
