QA Analyst

Real portfolio pieces built during the course, not a certificate for its own sake. Each one is work you can show.

• QA decision logEvery real decision from the eight days on one page: what was raised and by whom, what was decided and under which tier of authority, the reasoning in terms somebody could disagree with, and one line saying what would change the answer. Carries the coverage call held under time pressure, the review that named a real gap precisely, and the sign off decision defended against a delivery lead who wanted it sooner.
• Risk-based test planA sprint's coverage decisions across three competing stories, with the reasoning that decided what got full test design, what got a lighter pass, and what was deferred, plus the design technique chosen for the story with genuinely interacting conditions.
• Junior review notesA test case suite missing a real combination of conditions, and a bug report missing the one detail that makes it actionable, both graded on the specific gap rather than a general impression, with what fixing each would concretely look like.
• Automation priority memoWhat got automated this sprint and what stayed manual, reasoned against maintenance cost and regression value rather than ease of scripting, plus a review of a junior's first automated test that passed reliably while asserting the wrong thing.