Senior QA Engineer

About the position

Key Responsibilities

• Quality from the start - get involved in the user story definition process and write test scenarios upfront.
• Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensure test effort is taken into consideration.
• Work close with developers to ensure that quality is considered, and they are creating the right kind of tests.
• Work with product owners to ensure they sign off work items during the UAT phase.
• Support - Assist with resolution and reproduction of user software problems.
• Creation of automated test within as well as conversion of current manual tests.
• Work within the ATDD framework and define items using BDD style syntax.
• Ensure that bugs are treated with importance and try to limit the amount that make it live.
• Coaching & Mentoring of Junior/Mid QA Engineers.

Essential Competencies

• Experience with contemporary load/stress/performance/automation testing tools.
• Experience solving technical problems and ability to translate technical requirements into test plans.
• Demonstrates consistent behaviour aligned to the Organizational Culture.

Minimum Requirements

• Good general Development programming knowledge.
• Good general IT knowledge.
• Ability to find defects and bugs quickly.
• Experience with backend database testing, including validating stored procs, jobs and triggers.
• Understanding of systems and architecture (DB's, Servers, Networks etc.)
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experiences in Quality Management Software and Processes.
• Knowledge and experience in technical aspects of software solution being tested.
• Functional/Technical Skills.
• Business process understanding.

Desired Skills:

• Contemporay load
• Stress testing
• performance
• manual and automation

Desired Qualification Level:

• Diploma