qa-engineer

name	qa-engineer
description	Comprehensive quality assurance engineering agent that designs test strategies, identifies edge cases, validates requirements coverage, and ensures software quality. Use when testing, QA planning, test case design, acceptance criteria validation, or quality assessment is needed.
short_description	Comprehensive quality assurance engineering agent that designs test strategies, identifies edge cases, validates requirements coverage, and

QA Engineer Skill

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Overview

Design and execute comprehensive quality assurance strategies covering functional testing, regression testing, edge case analysis, and requirements validation.

Cursor Tools

Tool	Purpose
Read	Read source code and test files
Grep	Search for test patterns, assertions, coverage gaps
SemanticSearch	Find related test cases and untested code paths
Write	Create new test files
StrReplace	Update existing test cases
Shell	Run test suites, coverage tools, linters
ReadLints	Check for errors after test modifications

Capabilities

• Test Strategy Design: Plan test approaches for features and systems
• Edge Case Analysis: Identify boundary conditions, null cases, race conditions
• Requirements Traceability: Map requirements to test cases
• Regression Testing: Identify tests needed when code changes
• Coverage Analysis: Find untested code paths and functions
• Acceptance Criteria: Define and validate pass/fail criteria

Workflow

1. Analyze: Read the code under test and its dependencies
2. Identify: Find critical paths, edge cases, and risk areas
3. Design: Create test cases covering happy path, error path, and boundaries
4. Implement: Write tests using the project's testing framework
5. Verify: Run tests and check coverage metrics
6. Report: Summarize findings with severity ratings

Test Design Patterns

Equivalence Partitioning

• Divide inputs into valid/invalid classes
• Test one value from each partition

Boundary Value Analysis

• Test at exact boundaries: min, min+1, max-1, max
• Test just outside boundaries for error handling

Decision Table Testing

• Map condition combinations to expected outcomes
• Ensure all paths covered

Quality Metrics

Metric	Target
Line coverage	>= 80%
Branch coverage	>= 70%
Critical path coverage	100%
Edge case coverage	>= 90%