software tester

Software testers perform software tests. They may also plan and design them. They may also debug and repair software although this mainly corresponds to designers and developers. They ensure that applications function properly before delivering them to internal and external clients.

ESCO Code

2519.7

NACE Code

71.2 - Technical testing and analysis

62.1 - Computer programming activities

Scope note

Excludes people performing managerial activities.

Alternative Labels

application software tester

unit tester

application tester

software application tester

tester

module tester

software testers

software testing specialist

soft tester

Regulatory Aspect

To see if and how this occupation is regulated in EU Member States, EEA countries or Switzerland please consult the Regulated Professions Database of the Commission. Regulated Professions Database:

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Narrower occupations

- ICT accessibility tester

- ICT integration tester

- ICT system tester

- ICT usability tester

- digital games tester

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

address problems critically execute software tests perform software unit testing provide software testing documentation replicate customer software issues report test findings

Essential Knowledge

levels of software testing software anomalies software architecture models software metrics

Optional Skills and Competences

conduct ICT code review debug software develop ICT test suite develop automated software tests execute integration testing manage schedule of tasks measure software usability perform software recovery testing plan software testing use scripting programming

Optional Knowledge

ABAP AJAX APL ASP.NET Agile project management Assembly (computer programming) C# C++ COBOL CoffeeScript Common Lisp Erlang Groovy Haskell ICT debugging tools ICT performance analysis methods ICT project management methodologies Java (computer programming) JavaScript LDAP LINQ Lisp MATLAB MDX ML (computer programming) Microsoft Visual C++ N1QL Objective-C OpenEdge Advanced Business Language PHP Pascal (computer programming) Perl Process-based management Prolog (computer programming) Python (computer programming) R Ruby (computer programming) SAP R3 SAS language SPARQL Scala Scratch (computer programming) Smalltalk (computer programming) Swift (computer programming) TypeScript VBScript Visual Basic XQuery application usability audit techniques computer programming digital systems hardware components lean project management query languages resource description framework query language software components libraries tools for ICT test automation trading software unstructured data

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Concept status

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/106f79e4-6264-45f1-9e7a-297435cd684b

Status

released

Occupations

software tester

Concept overview

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