Software Tester's Desk

Any time someone discusses what are the qualities which a good software tester should posses, this note certainly comes up that he needs to know coding. That's when he can identify and dig deep into code and do more deeper levels of testing. But there is one quality which is more important Troubleshooting skills. I feel good troubleshooting skills are going to take a good software tester into better levels. Skills to troubleshoot an issue would be important, as this would get to be a direct pointer into root cause analysis at times. More than anything, this would help the tester get more idea regarding the environment details (thereby environmental dependencies as well) and also expose some more scenarios which would probably be candidates to find interesting bugs.