Role of designation

HI guys, say me the exact role of the following designation:

Test Engineer
Quality engineer
Quality analyst

Test Engineer: Quality Control (Writing TestCases, Internal review, Execution of Testcases, Report the Bugs, Prepare Test log/Data)
Quality Engineer: Quality Assurence.( Same as Test Engineer. This designation is used in Some Companies with CMM level or CMMi level Companies)
Quality Analyst: Senior Position.. May be he is the Lead or Associate QA Manager. Anlyse the project.. Risk Management, KT Sessions, Interaction with Client....etc.

Hi Balaji,

The roles which you have mentioned is designated for the persons who are in the field of Sofware Testing or in the Quality department of a software concern. The designations depends and varies from companies to companies. In general, most of the companie will designate as either Test Engineer of Quality Engineer. Anyhow, following will describe you the exact role given for the designations.

Test Engineer - The Test engineer will involve in the creation of test cases, execution of test cases, reviewing of test cases, validation of defect, estimation of test cases etc., For doing this the test engineer should have the capacity to identify or generate test cases out of the requirements.

Quality Engineer - This role will have the same role as of the Test Engineer. But the company will expect him to know the CMMI standards and different levels of CMMI, Six Sigma, ISO etc., The quality engineer should perform the quality audit based on either CMMI, six sigma or ISO based on which the company follows.

Quality Analst - He/She is a person who is mostly in the level of Team Lead or more. He has the role of preparation of Test Plan, Test Reports, Operational Quality Report, Defect summary report, test summary report, Leading the team of quality engineers etc., He will be directly interacting with the client for all the deliveries.

Regards,
Ganesan