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Roles in an IT team

QA engineer, developer, PM, designer, DevOps engineer

This topic has 15 questions at level A2 on key words and typical phrases. Each answer comes with a short explanation, and you get a review of your mistakes at the end. Module goal: discuss tasks and present results to business people and stakeholders.

Sample questions with explanations

  1. Who tests the product and finds bugs?

    • Designer
    • DevOps engineer
    • PM
    • ✓ QA engineer

    QA = Quality Assurance: testing and quality.

  2. Who writes the code and builds new features?

    • Designer
    • ✓ Developer
    • PM
    • QA engineer

    Developers (backend, frontend, mobile) write the code.

  3. Who plans the work, sets priorities and talks to the business?

    • Developer
    • DevOps engineer
    • ✓ PM
    • QA engineer

    The PM (project or product manager) plans the work and priorities.

Words and phrases (8)
QA engineer
tests the product and finds bugs
developer
writes code and builds features
PM (project / product manager)
plans the work and talks to the business
designer (UX/UI)
makes the product easy and nice to use
DevOps engineer
manages servers, CI/CD and deployment
to report to
to have someone as your manager
to be in charge of
to be responsible for and control
to work closely with
to work together a lot