Manual exploration
Reading acceptance criteria against the build, then going where the criteria did not think to go. Most real defects live in the gap.
Software failson purpose here
Riza is a QA engineer in Surabaya. He writes the tests that break an internal ERP before its users do, mostly in Playwright and TypeScript.
What the job actually is
Being the only QA on a product team means choosing what not to test as carefully as what to test. Three things take most of the week.
Regression in code
Playwright specs with page objects and fixtures, run on every pull request so a release never waits on a person clicking through the same flow again.
Defects that get fixed
A bug report is a piece of writing. Reproduction steps, expected against actual, evidence attached — so the developer never has to reply asking what happened.
Tools in rotation
- Playwright
- end-to-end suite
- TypeScript
- test code
- GitHub Actions
- scheduled run
- Postman
- API checks
- JMeter
- stress test, spike test, load test
- Kibana
- log evidence
- Dynatrace
- traces
- Jira
- defects and runs
Recent writing
All writingHave a release to break?
Send over what you're shipping. I'll find where it breaks before your users do.