qa-expert

qa-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,746 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to quality assurance, the structured practice of checking that software works as intended. It covers test planning, manual and automated testing, defect tracking, risk-based testing, and tools such as Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design test plans and cases, automate browser and API tests, test mobile apps, run regression and performance checks, manage defects, and connect tests to CI/CD.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose tests that match the risks in a product and reduce regressions, which are bugs introduced when existing code changes. It also helps organise testing results and defects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design test plans and cases, automate browser and API tests, test mobile apps, run regression and performance checks, manage defects, and connect tests to CI/CD.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,746 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00275

Measured 3d ago against content hash f8dffb866658, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-expert 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 3d ago.

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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.

stdlib/qa/qa-expert/SKILL.md · 445 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quality Assurance Expert

Expert guidance for quality assurance, testing strategies, test automation, and QA best practices.

Core Concepts

Testing Types

  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing
  • System testing
  • Acceptance testing
  • Regression testing
  • Performance testing
  • Security testing

Test Automation

  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Cypress, Playwright
  • API testing (Postman, REST Assured)
  • Mobile testing (Appium)
  • CI/CD integration
  • Test frameworks (JUnit, pytest, Jest)

QA Processes

  • Test planning
  • Test case design
  • Defect management
  • Test metrics and reporting
  • Risk-based testing
  • Exploratory testing

Test Automation Framework

import pytest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from typing import Dict, List

class BasePage:
    """Base page object"""

    def __init__(self, driver):
        self.driver = driver
        self.wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

    def find_element(self, locator):
        return self.wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located(locator))

    def click(self, locator):
        element = self.find_element(locator)
        element.click()

    def type_text(self, locator, text):
        element = self.find_element(locator)
        element.clear()
        element.send_keys(text)

    def get_text(self, locator):
        element = self.find_element(locator)
        return element.text

class LoginPage(BasePage):
    """Login page object"""

    USERNAME_INPUT = (By.ID, "username")
    PASSWORD_INPUT = (By.ID, "password")
    LOGIN_BUTTON = (By.ID, "login-button")
    ERROR_MESSAGE = (By.CLASS_NAME, "error-message")

    def login(self, username: str, password: str):
        self.type_text(self.USERNAME_INPUT, username)
        self.type_text(self.PASSWORD_INPUT, password)
        self.click(self.LOGIN_BUTTON)

    def get_error_message(self):
        return self.get_text(self.ERROR_MESSAGE)

class TestRunner:
    """Test execution framework"""

    def __init__(self, browser: str = "chrome"):
        self.browser = browser
        self.driver = None
        self.results = []

    def setup(self):
        if self.browser == "chrome":
            options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
            options.add_argument("--headless")
            self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
        elif self.browser == "firefox":
            self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()

        self.driver.implicitly_wait(10)

    def teardown(self):
        if self.driver:
            self.driver.quit()

    def run_test(self, test_func, test_name: str):
        try:
            test_func()
            self.results.append({"test": test_name, "status": "PASS"})
        except Exception as e:
            self.results.append({
                "test": test_name,
                "status": "FAIL",
                "error": str(e)
            })

    def generate_report(self) -> Dict:
        total = len(self.results)
        passed = sum(1 for r in self.results if r["status"] == "PASS")
        failed = total - passed

        return {
            "total": total,
            "passed": passed,
            "failed": failed,
            "pass_rate": (passed / total * 100) if total > 0 else 0,
            "results": self.results
        }

# Pytest fixtures
@pytest.fixture
def driver():
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument("--headless")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
    yield driver
    driver.quit()

@pytest.fixture
def login_page(driver):
    driver.get("https://example.com/login")
    return LoginPage(driver)

# Test cases
def test_successful_login(login_page):
    login_page.login("testuser", "password123")
    assert "Dashboard" in login_page.driver.title

def test_invalid_credentials(login_page):
    login_page.login("invalid", "wrong")
    error = login_page.get_error_message()
    assert "Invalid credentials" in error

Read the full file on GitHub · 445 lines

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. 3d ago Changed · +9 lines · +36 tokens per session f8dffb866658
  2. 5d ago First seen · 436 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 2171d21beeae

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qa-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,746 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 2026-09-03.