How Do You QA Test a Tsundere Android!?

Test 12: Eric

Eric shrugs with a tired smile.

"Haha."

The man laughs some more and then disappears.

"Hah..."

Eric sighs, rubs his eyes and then directs his attention toward me.

"Yes, how can I help you?"

"Um, Eric?"

"Yes, that would be me."

"Hi, I'm Nick. I was told to come to your office"

I walk toward his table as I continue.

"I'll be working as a QA, supposedly in this department."

"Nice to meet."

He smiles and stretches me a hand. I shake his hand and he goes on.

"A QA, huh. Of course, they couldn't find anybody else but me to show a new guy the ropes. Always gotta be me."

He sighs and smiles wryly.

"I wonder if they emailed me about this; haven't opened my inbox for like a week."

He turns toward his computer and clicks around with his mouse.

"Sit down, it might take a while to load. There are probably at least two hundred new unread emails, haha."

He makes a sarcastic laugh and points toward the chair standing in front of his table. I accept the offer and sit down.

"As I thought, 234 unread emails from the past week."

"T-that's quite the amount..."

"Let's try searching. You said 'Nick', right?"

"Yeah."

He types on the keyboard and then clicks on his mouse.

"Let's see.......... here's something."

He opens an email and starts reading.

"They did sent me an email about this, huh. Fine, let's get this thing over with."

He turns toward me and joins his palms in a businesslike manner.

"First, welcome to the company."

"Thanks."

"Since the big boss isn't around right now, I was told to be in charge of you for a while.

But I'll be honest with you: I don't have nearly enough free time on my hands to teach you everything. We are in 'crunch time' till the end of the month and I have loads of tasks sitting on me."

I nod with understanding.

"This is what we'll do: I'll arrange the basic tools so you can begin testing. Maybe I'll also get to teach you a little about the work flow here, when I have the time. Since we are about to release a new version fairly soon, at this point a newbie QA can't be expected to have a great impact; no offense."

"No, I understand."

If a version of a product is about to be released, then it must have been already tested a lot by more experienced QA testers. Even if a clueless newbie like me starts testing at this late point, it's unlikely I'll find critical bugs.

"With that being the case, you'll be somewhat of a 'freeloader' for a while."

"A freeloader...?"

"Yes, just take your time to slowly get accustomed to doing QA here. Did you work in the field before?"

"Yeah, for about two years. I was testing automated kiosks for a startup company."