Normally Test engineers are responsible for any release of 
a project.Even the release is for staging environment or 
change request release or production release 

The minimum documents are
1.Test Plan
2.Test Cases
3.Test Case Report
4.Bug report.
5.Release notes(which contains known issues).
6.installation document.

hi,
  the document neaded to prepare testing are
  1. srs document
  2. fs

Though the work of QE starts from Estimation..
The documents are :
1.While understanding the scope of the project if you are 
getting the answers for your queries from Dev team then 
consolidate it in an xls file.
2. Test Plan
3. Test Cases document
4. Trackers for each build (Tracking the result of your 
testcases and bugs).
5. Status report document(Can be weekly; depends)

When all the requirements and the entire fuctionality of 
the application is completely tested with the help of SRS 
and BRS the documents required to prepare during testing are

Test Initiation
Test Planning
Test Design
Test Execution
Test Log Report
Defect Tracking
Testing Report


Thank you

1. BRS
2. SRS
3. HLD
4. LLD
5. TEST STRATEGY
6. TEST PLAN
7. TEST CASES
8. DEFECTS REPORTING
9. FINALLY SUMMARY REPORT
      
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