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Quality Assurance / Test Engineer Bill of Rights

Observe your timepiece. I am about to tell you what time it is with your own timepiece.

Be you a QA Analyst/ Engineer or Test Engineer/Analyst or Tester, your inherent rights as a Quality Assurance Professional are as follows. You have the right to:

1. Seek improvement in industry, organizational, departmental, or team-originated professional works, methods, methodologies, processes and practices.
2. If it does not fit, tactfully challenge, question, and debate any method, methodology, process, practice and any related material.
3. Be instinctively skeptical of any material put in front of you.
4. Verify and validate any material put in front of you.
5. Critique any material put in front of you.
6. Understand that one methodology does not solve all problems.
7. Exercise your most basic instinct – find the flaws.
8. Understand the meaning of the word theory.
9. Be the best you can be and tactfully influence others to do the same.

What other rights do you feel could be listed here? Could any of the above be improved?