Software Testing Analyst

Responsibilities

As Agile methodologies depend heavily on collaboration, communication, and interaction between the
team members as well as stakeholders outside the team, testers in an Agile team should have good
interpersonal skills. Testers in Agile teams should:

• Be positive and solution-oriented with team members and stakeholders
• Display critical, quality-oriented, skeptical thinking about the product
• Actively acquire information from stakeholders (rather than relying entirely on written specifications)
• Accurately evaluate and report test results, test progress, and product quality
• Work effectively to define testable user stories, especially acceptance criteria, with customer representatives and stakeholders Evaluate existing test scenarios and test plans
• Collaborate within the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members
• Respond to change quickly, including changing, adding, or improving test cases
• Update existing test scenarios, test plans, and test scripts as necessary
• Plan and organize their own work
• Execute testing on both Web front-end and back-end systems (Configurations)                                                                                                                                         
• Ensure that our products, applications, and systems work correctly

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or comparable experience
• 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.
• 4+ years experience in software quality assurance
• 4+ years experience in developing test strategies, plans, and scripts
• 3+ years experience with backend services testing
• 3+ years experience with test data setup
• Some experience with test automation (Selenium, Katalon Studio, JMeter)
• Experience using version control (Git, Subversion, Mercurial)
• Basic knowledge and understanding of using SQL
• Experience in JIRA, Confluence, and Business Process Engines will be an added benefit.

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
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