Associate Software Quality Assurance / Testing Engineer

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Support the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.

Assist in Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.

Receive detailed instructions to work with the required user community (such as Regions or the Product Owner) to understand business requirements, and uphold quality of for each release by ensuring a comprehensive end-to-end testing coverage.

Assist with designing and implementing end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions.

Support the review of system requirements and tracking of quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts).

Assist with performing and documenting risk analysis and record test progress and results. Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.

Take direction from various stakeholders to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.

Assist with the creation of detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.

Support the design, development, coding, and execution of automation scripts

Receive detailed instructions to identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs and develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.

Assist with the development of standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.

Contribute ideas and suggestions that will enable innovation and streamline overall testing processes.

Assist with research of new tools, technologies, and testing processes as well as user interfaces for consistency and functionality.

Support and document established QA processes and best practices in Agile Scrum development methodology and influence the continuous improvement of the QA activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

Interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills

Team players and maintain the integrity and display good attention to detail

Ability to understand and analyze complex systems

Knowledge of SQL and scripting

Knowledge of software development process

Familiarity with agile development such as Scrum

Knowledge of software integrated development environments

Ability to handle client and customer issues tactfully and professionally

understanding of object-oriented programming

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Relevant certifications such as Leading SAFe would be advantageous

Required Experience:

Basic hands-on testing experience in AGILE/DevOps Methodology, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery

Basic work experience in software development

Basic work experience in software quality assurance

Familiarity with working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Familiarity with performance and/or security testing is a plus

Basic hands-on experience with automated testing tools

Basic experience working within a geographically dispersed company is desirable