Specialist, Quality Assurance

Role Purpose 

Leads quality control tests and analysis of outcomes in a software development life cycle to ensure technology solutions meet or exceed business and customer needs. This is an opportunity for someone with proven, hands-on experience leading quality assurance in a relevant domain. 

Role Responsibilities 

• Develops testing programmes throughout the entire technologies’ lifecycles that address areas such as functionality, compatibility, reliability and usability 

• Leads a wide range of quality control planning and execution activities in alignment with the organisation's standards and strategy to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified business and customer needs 

• Gathers testing requirements by evaluating the product requirement specifications (functional / non-functional) and raise clarifications with product owners, business analysts and customers. 

• Handle test scripts/cases autonomously– manual, automation, performance, and supporting analysis. Assigns required tests to Associates 

• Owns the ongoing maintenance of customer technologies, resolving the issues and calling out where vital. 

• Recommends and supports the implementation of improvements to quality control frameworks, processes and best practices 

• Builds trusting relationships with team and colleagues, collaborating closely with the team 

• Communicates clearly with team and keeps clear lines of communication open to ensure full understanding of tasks, asking questions where needed. 

Minimum Requirements 

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent 

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the software industry, including hands-on work with software quality frameworks using Java or Python. 

• ISTQB Core Foundation Certified or equivalent 

• Exhibits good knowledge in software quality assurance processes and 

• Exhibits good experience in manual, test automation or performance testing 

• Exhibits good experience in the software development life cycle and one programming language, preferably in multi-tiered applications. 

SKILLS AND PROFICIENCY 

Quality Assurance:- 

Guiding the team to ensure a product/service meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives to achieve desired level of quality. 

Test framework development / test scripting:-  

Guiding the team in developing, maintaining test framework and test scripts, demonstrates creativity and innovation using available software testing tools. 

In-depth/breadth tech expertise:- 

In depth technical expertise, knowledge of technologies and design, development and implementation of technologies related to role. 

Problem solving:- 

Defines a problem, generates solutions, and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem. 

Communication:- 

Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex / technical information in a concise format that is audience appropriate. 

Documentation:- 

Creates and maintains documentation to describe the system functionalities, testing requirements, framework design decisions, architecture of the test framework, test strategy, etc.