QA Engineer

Responsibilities:
• Develop focused test plans
• Perform complex test cases and maintain associated test records
• Participates in agile estimation taking into consideration product and process requirements during the development lifecycle
• Assists in the process with development in order to provide timely and accurate resolution to critical customer issues
• Understands the quality portion of building, packaging and deploying code. Identify patterns that need to be addressed from a quality perspective prior to hitting QA environments.
• Proactively works with other team members as needed to resolve issues and meet project goals
• Able to design test plans for future requirements
• Set up and maintain testing environments
• Utilize automated test scripts to perform regression and functional tests
• Follows defined engineering process during the development lifecycle
• Performs peer test reviews to identify improvements to test plans
• Recognized as an expert in one or more areas of product functionality
• Coordinates his/her own work as well as the work required from others
• Demonstrates mastery of problem-solving skills-test plans seldom require re-work
• Uses customer understanding and knowledge of the relevant technologies to measure the quality of a better product/service

Skills/Experience
• Diploma or degree in IT.
• 3 years of experience with test analysis.
• Previous exposure to Agile methodologies, especially Scrum
• Working knowledge of JIRA, MS DevOps or similar software work item management system
• Automation exposure: Selenium, Selenoid or similar platforms
• Proficient in: .net, with Java, Python or C# advantageous
• Basic knowledge of SQL at query and data analysis level
• Exposure to API testing will be advantageous.
• Knowledge of Postman or similar tools would be advantageous
• Ability to analyse and solve complex problems quickly and creatively
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills

Behavioral Competencies
• Self-sufficient and independent individual
• Positive attitude
• Loyal and trustworthy
• Attention to detail
• Methodical and diligent
• Strong team player