Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Purpose:

Responsible for performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading the execution of functional and non-functional tests, and implementing quality testing and reporting processes to track and ensure adherence to quality software development processes and products.

Main Responsibilities:

• Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensure that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
• Works with the project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, test schedules or strategies, identify test resources, estimate test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates, and ensure that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document, and maintain functional and non-functional test cases, test scripts, and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts, and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based on business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with enterprise architecture and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools, and define reusable templates in line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
• Define the test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
• Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams/personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
• Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws, and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
• Works with business units to perform post-deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation reviews within a defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
• Participates in the formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for the IT department.

Educational qualifications and work experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer science, BIT, or similar
• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology Quality Management and governance
• 3+years of overall experience delivering enterprise-class software solutions.