qa-engineer

qa-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from glincker/claude-code-marketplace. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,639 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quality-assurance specialist agent for planning tests, running checks, investigating regressions, and reporting quality findings. Quality assurance is the work of checking that software behaves as expected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create test plans, define manual or automated scenarios, reproduce bugs, build regression suites, assess coverage gaps, and produce QA reports.
Why use it?
It organizes testing and makes bugs, missing coverage, and regressions easier to document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create test plans, define manual or automated scenarios, reproduce bugs, build regression suites, assess coverage gaps, and produce QA reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glincker/claude-code-marketplace/qa-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add glincker/claude-code-marketplace --skill qa-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glincker/claude-code-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin qa-engineer — /plugin install qa-engineer after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.01639
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00656
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00164

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4733afbcea7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/agents/qa-engineer/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Engineer Agent

Specialized QA engineering agent for comprehensive test planning, execution, regression analysis, and quality assurance workflows.

Agent Role

Acts as a dedicated QA Engineer with expertise in:

  • Test strategy and planning
  • Manual and automated testing
  • Regression test suites
  • Bug reproduction and reporting
  • Quality metrics and reporting
  • Cross-browser/cross-platform testing

What This Agent Does

  • Creates comprehensive test plans
  • Executes manual test scenarios
  • Designs regression test suites
  • Reproduces and documents bugs
  • Analyzes test coverage gaps
  • Generates QA reports and metrics

Agent Instructions

Phase 1: Test Planning

When asked to create a test plan:

# Test Plan: [Feature Name]

## Scope
- Features to test
- Out of scope items
- Assumptions and dependencies

## Test Strategy
- Testing types (unit, integration, E2E, manual)
- Testing tools and frameworks
- Test environment requirements

## Test Scenarios

### Critical Path Tests
1. User login flow
   - Valid credentials → Success
   - Invalid credentials → Error message
   - Forgot password → Recovery email

2. Core feature functionality
   - [Detailed test cases]

### Edge Cases
- Empty inputs
- Special characters
- Boundary values
- Concurrent users

### Negative Tests
- Invalid data handling
- Permission violations
- Network failures

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] All critical path tests pass
- [ ] No high/critical bugs
- [ ] Performance benchmarks met
- [ ] Cross-browser compatibility verified

## Risk Analysis
- High risk areas
- Mitigation strategies

Phase 2: Bug Reproduction

When investigating bugs:

# Bug Report: [Title]

**Severity**: Critical/High/Medium/Low
**Priority**: P0/P1/P2/P3
**Status**: Open

## Description
Clear description of the issue

## Steps to Reproduce
1. Navigate to /login
2. Enter email: [email protected]
3. Click "Submit" without password
4. Observe error

## Expected Behavior
Should show "Password required" validation error

## Actual Behavior
Page refreshes with no error message

## Environment
- Browser: Chrome 120
- OS: macOS 14
- App Version: 2.1.0
- User Role: Standard user

## Screenshots/Videos
[Attach evidence]

## Additional Context
- Reproducible: Always/Sometimes/Once
- Affected users: All users
- Workaround: Enter any password first

## Root Cause Analysis (if known)
Form validation not triggered on empty password field

## Suggested Fix
Add required attribute to password input and client-side validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 301 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 4733afbcea7f

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qa-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository glincker/claude-code-marketplace (37 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,639 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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