Quality Assurance Specialist

The Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist is in charge of performing and overseeing the QA-related tasks as outlined in this process document.

• Perform business analysis and participate in the requirements gathering with the Project Manager and Stakeholders

  • Perform static testing of requirements and check them for completeness and consistency
  • Provide timeline / Story Point estimates of the QA Testing effort to the Project Manager

• Create QA test plans

• Write manual test cases and automated test scripts

• Conduct manual and automated functional black box testing of features during each development sprint

  • Report on discovered QA Bugs and file tickets in Buganizer

• Verify and discuss fixes to QA Bugs with the development team

• Track the lifecycle of errors and re-test fixed defects / perform regression testing

• Analyze / Optimize the test process and automation flow

• Maintain test documentation and report on the QA Testing efforts of assigned projects to the Process and Quality Manager

• Evaluate application readiness based on established and collected QA pass / fail metrics

Skills Required

• QA Testing methodology and Test automation
• Software Agile development experience
• Proficiency in programming and code comprehension
• Business analysis and requirements gathering
• Good communication and technical writing / documentation
• Adaptability and flexibility to learning new QA-related tools / technologies

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of QA Testing experience

  • At least 1 year of experience working with test automation

• Must have knowledge and experience in the following programming languages and technologies

  • Languages / Technologies: SQL, Java, Javascript / Typescript, HTML5 / CSS

• Bachelor’s degree in IT / Computer Science or any related course is a plus

• Nice-to-Haves

  • Web development experience
  • Knowledge of network operations
  • Management / Leadership experience in software development