Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities

What will you contribute?

The Technical QA engineer ensures software products meet design specifications and product quality standards, by performing technical tests, automation and environment maintenance.

We need a business focused application tester who has worked or is at least aware of the modern development practices (agile mindset, CI/CD culture awareness, using TDD / BDD styles to deliver code, static analysis, etc.).

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Your deliverables as a Technical QA engineer will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Creating test cases from product specifications.
• Reviewing quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Sets up and maintains personal testing environments. May set up team testing environments.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Design, develop, and maintain test scripts to be automated.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.
• Monitor debugging process results.
• Assist in the review of software development processes to improve product quality.
• Communicates with stakeholders on product issues.
• Acquires and maintains knowledge of existing products, operations or systems.
• Reviews product documentation to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Provides support to stakeholders prior to GA release of software.
• Create and/or run SQL scripts to populate data and validate test results.

• 2-3 years' experience in software testing or related field.
• Experience in the software or financial industry preferred.
• Experience with relational databases preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills; effective customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of quality assurance methods and techniques including the software development lifecycle.
• Effective planning and organizational skills, with an attention to detail.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to think 'out of the box' for process improvements.
• Ability to work with specialized software tools; effectively implement and evaluate new processes or plans.
• Ability to execute test plans and test scripts for commercial software applications, document expected results vs. actual results, and record software defects.
• Preferred knowledge of automated testing software tools with ability to design and develop automated testing programs.
• Preferred knowledge of the Agile software development methodology.