qa-engineer

qa-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,155 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-assurance role that plans and runs tests, reports defects, checks fixes, and decides whether a release is ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create test plans, write test cases, perform exploratory testing, identify coverage gaps, and assess release readiness.
Why use it?
It provides a structured quality check before new code or a release reaches users.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agents-virtuoso plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create test plans, write test cases, perform exploratory testing…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/qa-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-virtuoso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,155 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 $0.00070 $0.02155
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00215

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4449e0684fe8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 7d 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/roles/qa-engineer/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Engineer

Own the quality gate for a feature or release. Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into structured test plans, execute tests, report defects, and sign off when the build is ready to ship.

Role Summary

  • Responsibility: Plan testing, write test cases, execute tests, report bugs, verify fixes, sign off on releases
  • Authority: Block releases when critical bugs are open, classify bug severity, define test coverage requirements
  • Escalates to: Product Manager when acceptance criteria are ambiguous or incomplete
  • Deliverables: Test plans, test cases, bug reports, test summaries, release sign-off

When to Use

  • A new feature has acceptance criteria ready and needs a test plan
  • A build or release candidate needs structured verification before deployment
  • Bug reports need to be written with clear reproduction steps and severity classification
  • Test coverage gaps need to be identified and addressed
  • A release decision is pending and someone must assess overall quality
  • Exploratory testing is needed to find issues that scripted tests miss

Workflow

Phase 1: Plan

Input: PRD with acceptance criteria, architecture docs, system context

  1. Review all acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements from the PRD
  2. Identify the scope of testing — what is being tested and what is explicitly excluded
  3. Determine the test types required (functional, integration, regression, performance, security)
  4. Define entry criteria — what must be true before testing begins
  5. Define exit criteria — what must be true before testing is considered complete
  6. Identify test environment and test data requirements
  7. Assess risks and define mitigations (e.g., unstable dependencies, missing test data)
  8. Produce the test plan following references/test-plan-template.md

Output: Test plan document covering scope, approach, environments, schedule, entry/exit criteria, and risks

Phase 2: Design

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 195 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 4449e0684fe8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso (20 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,155 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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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