Test Engineer

As a Test Engineer, you will be collaborating with our software engineering team(s) & vendors to further improve the quality of our products and keep a mindful eye on how we can make them even better.

Key responsibilities

The specific duties include:

• Work with our business stakeholders, software engineering teams & vendors to ensure requirements are understood, achievable, and tested
• Investigate and debug difficult problems, and help drive them to closure
• Evaluating adequacy and quality assurance standards
• Creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases (end-to-end)
• Estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating testing activities
• Identifying, recording, documenting in detail and tracking identified bugs
• Performing regression testing following the resolution of bugs through the designing, developing and executing automated scripts
• Tracking quality assurance metrics
• Contributing to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Be a proactive proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.

Key skills

Skills:

• Good knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience in Test Case Management Tools (e.g. TestRail), Defect Management Tools (e.g. DevOps, Jira)
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and knowledge of BDD test automation frameworks (e.g. Specflow, TestNG)
• Interest in GUI (e.g. Selenium) and API testing
• Interest in SOA architectures and micro-services
• Interest in Machine Learning

Experience

The successful candidate will be able to show work product from this period The candidate should have proven work experience in software quality assurance.

• University Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Self-motivated with passion for quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of QA methodologies - writing test plans and test cases
• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data)
• One+ years of experience of software QA and automation testing experience
• Able to execute automated tests, understand the code and prioritize any failures