On  the  first  day  of  my  placement,  I  was  not  made  do  much,  I  was  set  up  with  a company laptop, email, cloud storage etc, and I observed what the Project Team did on a day to day basis. This was to give me a good understanding of what I would be doing myself in the coming weeks.One month in to my placement, I was comfortably working on the main project with the  team  and  I  was  getting  my  first  taste  of  what  it  is  like  to  work  in  the  software industry.  I  had  test  cases  that  were  to  be  completed  daily  as  well  as  some  other small tasks assigned to me by the supervisor.Three  months  from  the  start  of  my  placement,  I  had  attained  much  experience  on working with the main project and had completed a few small side projects within my work  placement.  I  was  happy  with  all  the  exposure  I  was  given  so  far,  and  I attempted  to  show  great  initiative  in  all  the  tasks  in  which  I  was  given.  I  was  also more reliable to the Project Team and struggled less in my day to day duties.

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The technical placement role assigned to me is QA Engineer. The typical duties of a QA Engineer at DPD Ireland are testing ongoing projects, logging new bugs, testing ongoing  bugs  until  they  are  patched  by  an  updated  release,  giving  updates  on progress at the start or end of each day to a project manager. Each QA Engineer on the team must test on a certain platform/browser to ensure that the application beingtested will function as intended for all sorts of users.My  typical  day  consisted  of typingup  a  bug  report  on  all  opened/closed  bugs  from the day before and presenting this report to my supervisor. Then, I installed the new release of the application being tested and begin executing my assigned test cases. Once  my  test  cases  were  complete,  I  moved  on  to  any  open  bugs  that  were  to  be tested in the latest release and attempted to replicate them to see if said bugs could be closed or remain opened.

 

More information about these roles can be read on my CV or LinkedIn.