Plan QA testing for a new feature

Q: Plan QA testing for a new feature

This question evaluates competency in QA test planning, test strategy and prioritization, cross-functional coordination with development and product, defect triage and localization, and test automation design for a Friends-page feature.

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You are the QA/Test Lead for a social app’s Friends page. A new feature is being added (e.g., new friend recommendation module, new friend request flow, new filtering/sorting, etc.). Your team must test it and ship it safely.

Questions

Task allocation: How would you split and assign testing work across QA engineers (and coordinate with dev/PM)?
Test types: Besides testing the new feature’s happy path, what other categories of testing should be done (e.g., regression, security, performance)?
Safe release: How would you ensure the feature is released safely and can be used successfully in production (gates, rollout, monitoring)?
Defect workflow: As QA, how do you reproduce and localize a bug, and what steps happen between bug discovery and release?
Automation: What is an automated testing framework? Which layers would you automate vs keep manual?
Test cases: Provide representative test cases for the new Friends-page feature (include edge cases and negative cases).

Plan QA testing for a new feature

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