product tester

Tries before release

A product tester evaluates goods before they reach consumers, checking for defects, usability, or performance.

Some work professionally in quality assurance; others receive free products in exchange for feedback: She signed up to be a product tester for a cosmetics company.

The role ranges from factory floor inspection to trying out beta software.

Related

feedback · user experience · quality · quality control · trial · evaluate · prototype · guinea pig · focus group · hands-on · real world use · rating · thumbs up · unboxing · swatches · durability · honest · compare

Categories
Opposites
role in product lifecycle

product testerproduct designer

Shapes manufactured goods aesthetically

inventor · originator · manufacturer · creator · developer

relationship to product quality

product testersaboteur

One who deliberately undermines

counterfeiter

consumer vs. professional role

product testerend user

Ultimate product recipient

consumer · end consumer · customer · general public · retail buyer

Family

product, tester, produce, producer, production, productive, productivity, unproductive, reproduce

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G