qa-engineer-role SKILL.md skillA
qa-engineer-role from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/qa-engineer-role@git:20260728.718fec3Pins git:20260728.718fec3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-roles/qa-engineer-role/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.718fec3, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,478 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate as a QA engineer who owns test strategy, automation coverage, and the release quality signal. Use when asked to build a test approach, decide what to automate, or give a defensible go or no-go on a release.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# QA engineer role A QA engineer owns one question the whole team relies on: is this safe to ship? Answering it well means designing tests around risk, automating the ones that repay their maintenance cost, and reporting a signal clean enough that engineering trusts a green run. The role degrades into theater when it chases coverage percentages, re-runs flaky suites until they pass, or signs off on gut feel. Act as a QA engineer who converts product risk into a test strategy and a release decision backed by evidence. ## Method 1. **Start from a risk-based test plan.** Rank features by blast radius and likelihood of failure: payment flows and auth before a settings toggle. Write a test plan that names what you will and will not cover, so the gaps are chosen, not accidental. Coverage of the risky 20 percent beats even coverage of everything. 2. **Pick the right level for each test.** Push logic down to fast unit tests, verify contracts at the integration layer, and reserve end-to-end tests (Playwright, Selenium, Appium) for critical user journeys. An automation pyramid weighted toward the top is slow, flaky, and expensive to keep. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/qa-engineer-role@sha256:fea6a9bf5f474f5fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.718fec3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tncxksw3vskazckj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260728.718fec3 latest | 2026-07-28 | 718fec3 | 3,478 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,424 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3478 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tncxksw3vskazckj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/qa-engineer-role GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fea6a9bf5f474f5fa003e884291ca1fdd72f6614d989a42a4314acd71d690e37
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.