Role Description:
The role requires you to think critically and pay maximum attention to details to software development shipments of our products. We are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. The QA engineer role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you.
Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards
Responsibilities:
- Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
- Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are said to be resolved
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements and issues
- Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
- Track quality assurance metrics i.e. defect densities, open defect counts and time to resolution
- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
You are a good fit if you:
- Proven work experience in software development or software quality assurance
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Exceptional attention to details with analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject is preferred
- Knowledge of MEAN stack development is also preferred
