How to automatically set tester into Jira?

[Kobold]

Hi all,

Here's the workflow we have:

Status: ToDo-> InProgress -> ReadyForTesting -> InTesting -> Ready For Release -> Done

A,B,C...Z are now developers. Once they move a task from ToDo to in progress, it's automatically assigned to the one (let's say to A) that moves ticket in progress.
Once A finishes to work on it, it's moved into ReadyForTesting.
Now, one of B,C...Z has to test it (we don't have a dedicated QA team). So one of B,C...Z picks the task from ReadyForTesting and marks himself/herself as tester.
Question is: how to make that automatically? How to mark the person that moved the ticket into InTesting as tester in Jira?

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!

I am beginner with Jira.

[Julia Foden]

Hi @Kobold 

You could create a user picker custom field like Tester. Then add a post function on the transition into InTesting to 'update custom field'. When you get to that screen, select Tester and you can copy from a panel what you need to paste in. It's something like %%CURRENT_USER%%. But copy it from the screen in the post function config, don't copy it from here!

That will then put the person who did the transition into the Tester custom field on the issue.