Quality Assurance Senior Executive

Job Description

Company Introduction

Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Establishing and evolving formal QA processes, ensuring that the organisation is using industry-accepted best practices, including Agile Practices;
• Co-ordinating Quality Assurance activities whilst continuously expanding the Automation Framework;
• Understanding client/business requirements and applying critical thinking and improvement;
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met;
• Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA activities internally and with different Project teams;
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated) based on requirements;
• Responsible for creating test scenarios in a manner that can be used by the client as well as ensuring out of scope functionalities are highlighted properly;
• Reviewing functional specifications/user stories submitted by product architects and owners;
• Performing exploratory and ad-hoc manual testing (end-to-end, integration);
• Coordinating User Acceptance activities with various stakeholders;
• Taking a pro-active and dynamic approach towards problem solving and root cause analysis;
• Participate actively in retrospective meetings following sprint or project delivery;
• Be updated on the latest testing techniques, strategies, testing tools/ test frameworks, etc.;
• Evaluate and identify the required test automation and test management tools;
• Create and maintain the required test automation framework;
• Maintain and develop automation scripts within the CI/CD pipeline.

Experience

• Holding a degree in Computer Science or a related field;
• At least 5 years’ experience in software testing or similar roles;
• Proven test automation experience;
• Experience in micro-service architecture and queuing technologies will be considered an asset;
• Experience in building test plans and related tools such as MS Project.

Personal Skills

• Excellent troubleshooting skills to root cause complex issues.
• Knowledge of test tools such as JIRA, SOAPUI, JMeter, LoadRunner etc.;
• Strong troubleshooting skills, analytical problem solving ability, and organizational skills.