qTest for Test Management

We use Tricentis qTest to help clients standardize and optimize test planning and repositories. We also use it with clients for manual and exploratory testing since not everything can be automated. As with anything, there's a learning curve. But leveraging qTest to store test scenarios in a clean way, also linking everything back to requirements provides traceability from start to finish. It also doesn't depend what automation platform we're using, qTest integrates well through qTest Pulse via API and webhooks. This is one of the elite commercial/enterprise grade test management platforms to exist.

For visibility, an organization moving from spreadsheets or confluence for example, now has one place to look for all manual and automated test reporting directly linked to epics/stories. PMs can also see test statuses and launch readiness very easily. No more instinctual guessing.

For risk coverage, qTest allows for building a formal matrix of traceability, which you can then tag things based on risk, making test execution more effective by focusing on highest priority activities, as well as post-mortem or audit workflows moving much more swiftly.

As for process improvement, you can't manage what you don't measure. With qTest you can more easily trace repeated failures to identify root causes and adjust. You also no longer have to rely on tribal knowledge, you have a central record of history to bring new team members up to speed faster, as well as to mitigate errors or inefficiencies moving forward.