Sample 3 - Appraisal Feedback - Exceeds Expectation

Sample 3 - Appraisal Feedback - Exceeds Expectation

Work Delivery 

Uses effective approaches to accomplish the task. Has ability to identify and understand the problems and opportunities. Has ability to look into the project from bigger angle. Provided comments to Req doc of MC 2 and thus helped the product management team to filled up the gaps. SME on CB and MC product line. Proved ability to come up with detailed and exhaustive test cases/test scenarios. Has an attention of detail approach. Always look for how best he can do. 

Product and Domain understanding 

Gained knowledge on CB, MC product line.  Very good understanding on the domain which helped him to derive many test scenarios. 

Teambonding

An excellent team player.  Always ready to help others. Imparted trainings to the new joiners. Shares information on domain knowledge with others. Mingles well with Team members and cross team members, asks and takes input from others.

Ownership

Suggested many enhancements to make the product better. Made a feasibility study of ABC tool and made analysis and incorporated in MC 2 test case writing. Provided many ideas to use QC more effectively. Flexible in nature and ready to put extra hours as on when required.

Has got high degree of positive energy and keep others motivated. Always willing to go extra mile. Helps other to achieve their goals. Takes initiative and proposes ideas to do the task more effectively

Communication

Mingles well, asks and takes input from others. Helps other team members proactively. Effectively communicates and proactively raised gaps in Req doc in MC 2. Attentive to customer need.  

Manager's Rating - Exceeds Expectation

Strong Area:

1. Technical skill and knowledge on QA process

2. Product and Domain knowledge 

Improvement Area:

1. Need to take more responsibility and ownership

2. Effective communication

Sample 2 - Appraisal Feedback - Exceeds Expectation

Sample 2 - Appraisal Feedback - Exceeds Expectation

Work delivery 

Performs her task with due diligence, with very high quality and most of the time ahead of the schedule. Got many appreciations from onsite team. Takes complete ownership of the task given. Puts effort to collect information from all the sources, analyzes and then take a decision out of it. Due to her precision/perfection in the work done, she has acquired additional responsibility. In a very short time period she picked up and took complete ownership of two very critical task R and S Patch testing. In automation front as well she proved to be as quick learner and provided a quality deliverables. Often exceeds the expectation.

Product and Domain understanding 

Puts effort beyond expectation to acquire product and domain knowledge. 

Team Bonding

Imparted trainings to the new joiners proactively. Many times she helped others to resolve their issues. Attended training on xyz with due diligence and showed improvement to a great extent. An excellent team player.  Prefers to come to a conclusion. Demonstrated high degree of positive energy in the team. Extend her help to Dev team to the Env creation and configuration issues. Maintains a very good relationship with other team members and always ready to help others to achieve their goal (MC 2 testing for an example)

Ownership

Has complete sense of ownership of the task given. Proactively takes ownership and always tries her best to give her 100% and go beyond the expectation. Took ABC – code refactoring task proactively and came out with success with minimal guidance on Automation. Hard working and has an attention to detail and perfection. Completes her task very neatly. Demonstrates high degree of flexibility and quickly adjust to any changes. Suggested ideas to improve SM patch testing and was accepted by onsite team. 

Communication

Effectively communicates, keeps updated about the progress update and raise a concern if any issue faced before it goes to critical state. Does her task keeping organization interest in her mind. Very attentive to customer need.

Manager's Rating - Exceeds Expectation

Strong Area

1. Sense of ownership to the task given and personal commitment

2. An attention to detail and perfection in the completed task

Improvement Area

1. Enhance skill in new technologies/tools 

2. Enhance skill in Performance Testing

Sample 1 - Appraisal Feedback

Sample 1 - Appraisal Feedback

Work Delivery

Fulfilled expectation in terms of completion of the assigned task. (P Patch, P and S TC writing, MC 2 project). He performs the assigned task with due diligence. He puts effort to enhance his skill. He takes time to understand something but the understandings are clear. He demonstrates flexibility in working in diff product line (C and MC 2 simultaneously). Need to be more effective on his contribution towards productivity part.

Product and Domain understanding 

Gained knowledge on C, MC product line and on Online Banking domain as expected. 

Team Bonding

He mingles well, asks and takes input from others. He shares information on his own expertised area to others. Imparted trainings to the new joiners

Ownership

Takes ownership of the assigned task. Needs to come out with more effective way of doing task and thus improve on his productivity. Shows positive energy and willing to go extra mile with little guidance.

Communication

He communicates with the peers/devs related to his own task. Communicated to onsite team for MC project. Has a sense of ownership to the tasks assigned. Raise a concern early and inform if he is not able to do the task given.

Manager's Rating - Meets Expectation

Strong Area- 

1. He performs his task with due diligence.

2. He has got positive attitude.

Improvement Area - 

1. He needs to enhance his effectiveness in terms of productivity towards project work.

2. Needs to show some proactive approach to the project need and actively participate in team communication.

Sample: How to fill up Appraisal Form ( by a Test Manager)

Sample: How to fill up Appraisal Form ( by a Test Manager)

Communication:

 Coordinated with the cross team (dev/doc/qa/dev/recruitment/IT) for the required information. Shared project updates with the team members. Conducted 1:1 with the team members and listened to them carefully. Always set the goals/expectation to the team members and also shared the vision/big picture behind it. Asked for the feedback/opinion from the onsite manager/local Manager as on when required. Coordinated with onsite and keep them updated about the project progress on regular basis with adequate information. Discussed about the Future work, Test strategy and Hiring part with onsite manager. Understood the client need and suggested suitable solution on the project work and thus won client trust within a very short span of time.

  

Team Play:

Helped the team members to achieve their goals. Always looked for their strong area and utilized on them and helped the team members to overcome the improvement areas. Maintained a very good rapport with all the team members. Gave lot of suggestion on their project work. Gave the team members an honest feedback as on when required both for positive as well as for improvement area. Encouraged and gave positive reinforcement to boost up their productivity. Recognized the team members for their achievements/Appreciated in team meeting based on the weightage of their achievements/initiative taken. Showed team members care and respect to them. Coached the team members to make them self sufficient as much as possible. Motivated the team members to do their best.

Work Output:

Accomplished work with utmost sincerity and due diligence. Completed each of the assigned tasks in whole and within time. Always took the complete ownership of the task given. Took guidance/inputs from manager as on when required but made sure the assigned task is done completely and delivered with high quality. Proactively made a list of the tasks and worked towards achieving those goals. Always put 100% to the work and tried to excel in each of the task executed. Always strived for high quality in all the deliverables. Made sure to gain product/domain knowledge which helped me to make a better plan and guide the team members and thus managed the team better. Took part in reviewing the Test Artifacts prepared by the team members and driving the issue faced by the team to closure. Took effort to gather the pertaining data and made an analysis and took an optimum decision out of it. Eager in learning in nature and hence looked for every opportunity to upgrade myself on professional knowledge /skill. Attended several trainings during the period with utmost sincerity (Manager Foundation Program, QC, Performance Appraisal and few sessions by Testing council team). Excellence in task completed helped me to gain client confidence and thus was able to take the QE team from 0 to 12 member team in a less than a year.

New Ideas:

Made sure the resources are effectively utilized and took proactive action on preparing back up resources for critical work and training resources for the upcoming work. Took initiative to expand the Automation skill within the team. Gave many ideas related to day to day work to perform better and getting higher productivity. Took initiative on capturing the knowledge on troubleshooting areas, Query tracker, QC implementation, Test Case repository build up, Preparing closure report etc. Proactive in making a list of item what the team can take up during lean period or if Plan A does not work and thus utilized the team effectively.

Attitude:

Always look at the problem as an opportunity for learning. Approached to problem with a can-do attitude. Think hard and explored all the possible solution before taking any decision. Thought about the pros and cons of each of the solution; made analysis and found out the best solution to be applied. Flexible in nature – sometime if required put effort beyond the office hour/ from home to deliver the committed deliverables within the time. Positive and flexible in nature.

Strength:

Quality Deliverables – Accomplish work completely and with utmost diligence. 

Commitment – Take full ownership of the task and deliver on time.                                       

Proactive in Approach and Focused & Positive in nature.

Improvement areas:

Presentation skill and skill on selling an idea

Next year's goals:

Bring more Testing Maturity (Expansion of Automation skill, Taking presentation in Organisation level from the team, KB article preparation –Knowledge Management etc)