Team & Roles

Testify has two separate, independent role systems — don’t confuse them.

Global account role

Your account has a role of either user or admin. This is a platform-operations flag only — it does not grant access to any project’s data by itself. The admin role is used for platform-level screens like User Management, and it’s granted manually (not something you can request in-app).

Project role

Access to a specific project’s Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Runs, and Issues is controlled entirely by that project’s members list. Each member of a project has one of these roles:

Role	Description
manager	Full control over the project, including settings and membership
supervisor	Oversees execution and reviews results
tester	Executes Test Runs and records results
member	General collaborator

A user can be a manager on one project and a tester on another — project roles are entirely independent per project, and unrelated to whether that user is a global admin.

Your public profile

Whenever you’re shown as a tester, assignee, or project member, Testify displays your public profile (username, display name, avatar) — never your email address, which stays private to your account.

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