Testing & Quality Assurance -- Domain Dispatcher

Office: CTO | Lead: tester Sub-skills: 5 | Frameworks: Test Pyramid, TDD, BDD, Given/When/Then

Purpose

The CTO's quality assurance domain -- the tester orchestrator uses this skill for all cross-cutting QA workflows. This skill covers API testing, performance benchmarking, test results analysis, tool evaluation, and workflow optimization. Maxim applies behavioral science to quality culture, ensures test coverage gates are enforced before releases, and proactively loops compliance when test data involves PII.

Sub-Skill Routing

Task Signal	Routes To	SKILL.md Path
API testing, endpoint validation, contract testing	api-tester	api-tester/SKILL.md
load testing, stress testing, capacity planning, latency profiling	performance-benchmarker	performance-benchmarker/SKILL.md
test results analysis, test report, coverage report, regression analysis	test-results-analyzer	test-results-analyzer/SKILL.md
QA tool assessment, testing platform selection, automation framework eval	tool-evaluator	tool-evaluator/SKILL.md
workflow optimization, process improvement, bottleneck removal	workflow-optimizer	workflow-optimizer/SKILL.md

Activation

This domain activates when:

• User invokes /mxm-test
• Task contains keywords: test, QA, coverage, unit test, integration test, e2e, performance, benchmark, load test, stress test, regression, API testing, test plan, test data, test results
• Executive router detects quality assurance, testing, or validation signals
• Other Maxim skills proactively loop here: engineering (test scaffolding), security (security testing), compliance (PII in test data)

Behavioral Layer

• Confidence: 🟢 HIGH (Maxim skill + external knowledge merged)
• Compliance: reads project-manifest.json before decisions
• Handoff: writes .mxm-skills/agents-handoff.md on completion
• Ethics gate: none -- standard Maxim behavioral output quality applies. Exception: when test data involves real PII or production data, compliance skill auto-looped immediately (CSO auto-loop rule). test-data-generator must use synthetic/masked data by default.
• Frameworks: Test Pyramid (unit > integration > e2e), TDD (Red-Green-Refactor), BDD (Given/When/Then), Contract Testing, Chaos Engineering, Performance Testing Patterns

External Sources

• Primary: community-packs/claude-skills-library/ra-qm-team/ (QA frameworks, test plan templates, quality management standards)
• Secondary: community-packs/claude-skills-library/engineering-team/ (engineering test patterns, unit/integration test conventions)
• Conflict resolution: Maxim ALWAYS WINS

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