What and at what stages should an AQA do when working on a task?

AQA (Automation Quality Assurance) participates in several key stages of task work:

1. Requirements Analysis – studies the technical specifications and functional requirements to understand what exactly needs to be tested and which scenarios to automate.

2. Test Design – develops test cases and determines which of them can and should be automated.

3. Automated Test Development – writes automation scripts using selected tools and frameworks.

4. Integration with CI/CD – configures test runs in the continuous integration pipeline for timely regression detection.

5. Execution and Results Analysis – runs tests, analyzes reports, identifies defects, and interacts with the development team to fix them.

6. Test Maintenance and Updates – updates tests when functionality changes, monitors the relevance of automation.

Thus, AQA ensures product quality through automation testing at all stages of the task lifecycle.