What does this skill do?

The QA Engineer skill is an open-source (Apache-2.0) skill that helps an agent act as a dedicated quality-assurance professional.

It spans test strategy and planning, manual and automated testing, regression suite management, bug reproduction and reporting, and quality-metrics analysis.

It follows a four-phase workflow — test planning, bug reproduction, regression testing, and test execution reporting — and supports cross-browser and cross-platform testing.

  • Formulates comprehensive test plans with risk analysis

  • Reproduces bugs with detailed steps and root-cause analysis

  • Builds regression suites for previously fixed issues

  • Produces QA reports with coverage and defect-density metrics

How it works

1

Plan the tests

The agent generates a structured test plan — scope, strategy, critical-path, edge, and negative scenarios, acceptance criteria, and risk analysis.

2

Reproduce bugs

It investigates issues with systematic reproduction, documenting severity, priority, steps, expected vs actual behavior, and root cause.

3

Build regression suites

It creates suites verifying previously fixed bugs remain resolved while validating core functionality stability.

4

Report results

It produces a test-execution report with pass/fail rates, defect analysis, coverage and defect-density metrics, and recommendations.

Best use cases for this skill

  • Test planning: Generate a comprehensive test plan for a feature.

  • Bug triage: Reproduce and document a reported issue with root cause.

  • Regression: Build a regression suite for fixed bugs.

  • Cross-browser: Maintain a compatibility matrix across browsers.

Frequently asked questions

What does the QA Engineer skill do?

It acts as a QA specialist for test planning, execution, and regression analysis — comprehensive test plans, bug reproduction and reporting, regression suites, and quality-metrics reports.

When should an agent use it?

Use it to create test plans, reproduce and report bugs, build regression suites, analyze coverage gaps, or generate QA reports.

Does it support cross-browser testing?

Yes. It maintains compatibility matrices documenting feature behavior across browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.

What metrics does it report?

Test counts, pass/fail rates, defect analysis, coverage percentage, and defect density, along with actionable recommendations.

Use from source

Ask your Buda agent to install this community skill.

Copy this prompt into your own Buda agent. It includes the source repository and install command so the agent can complete the setup in natural language.

Prompt to send to your Buda agent
Please install the "QA Engineer Skill" skill into this Buda agent.

Source repository: https://github.com/glincker/claude-code-marketplace
Install command: npx skills add glincker/claude-code-marketplace --skill qa-engineer -y -a universal

Please run the install command, verify the skill is available, and tell me any setup notes or follow-up steps from the source repository.
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Install workflow

  1. 1Copy the prompt
  2. 2Send it to your Buda agent
  3. 3Done