RE: Part Time QA

["Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

In my first position, documentation was part of the QA dept...it was called  
"The QA and Documentation Department"...and when I was not writing, I was 
QAing (is that a word?). In my present position, I have helped out with QA, 
and when I first came on there was not a QA person, and I did QA in between 
my writing...I still help out with it sometimes and help out a lot with the 
QA documentation (test plans etc). I find it to be beneficial, as I often 
find and learn things during QA, that help or even correct my manuals.

As for salary, both places paid the QA members the same as the technical 
writers, and I make a good salary. However, you do have to stay on top of 
managers as far as priority and time goes...but that tends to be an issue 
for me when I am not doing QA work. :)

Good luck!
Melissa





From:  "Jonny Benjamin" <jonnyben -at- gmail -dot- com>
To:  TECHWR-L <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject:  Part Time QA
Date:  Tue, 22 May 2007 10:23:55 +0300
>Fellow TW's,
>
>I wanted to get some insight from other writers. One of the tech writing
>positions that I am currently looking into includes being part of a QA team
>in the job description. In an initial interview, the HR person pointed out
>that 50% of the position will involve running tests just like a regular QA
>member. In my many years as a TW I have contributed unofficially to 
>"QA'ing"
>while documenting UI and manipulating a system in order to write about it
>but have never had to do official QA testing. My feeling is that there is
>not enough regular documenting to do so the company wants to take advantage
>of the TW for other duties. My fear is that they will have unrealistic
>expectations from this position. They also told me the current writer who
>has been there 6 years is leaving and (of course they didn't say because)
>he/she was not prepared to function as a QA member.
>
>Does anyone have experience with such a job description. Is this a no go
>professionally for an experienced TW or alternatively could it be
>challenging and add to my skill sets.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jonny Benjamin
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