Every quality product passes through the hands of two team members known as Software Tester and Business Analyst. Here, the question arises which one is best for the organization the Software Tester who learns the business or the Business Analyst who learns testing?
Software tester is a person who always brings quality to product and helps in improving the performance of application. Even if he/she does not necessarily has much knowledge about business processes but has expertise in finding bugs.
On the other hand the business analyst is person who has years of industry experience that value a lot. He is a person coming to overtake software testing with his valuable knowledge and industry experience. Quite often such a person, working as part of a test team, can look well beyond a feature not working. Business analyst can easily recognize that why an attribute not working according to business perspective when it might work properly with functional point of view.
It describes that QA person who also has knowledge of business processes can be best suited for any industry. Quietly, it means that software tester professional not only specialized in testing a product but also have knowledge on particular industry too.
Here back to the question again that which one is good for our organization a software tester or business analyst. This is totally depend on the organization that it requires business person in team who does not have QA knowledge or Software Tester who is totally unknown from business approach. It is better to have a person with mix knowledge of both.
So, on the basis of above discussion it is concluded that a person with skills and most enthusiastic about learning is best for any kind of organization. The person who has software testing skills and knowledge about specific industry can test a product from both perspectives. He/she will be helpful for organization in developing a product that satisfies end user requirements.
