Specialist: QA Engineer

Role purpose:
An engineer working closely with developers to ensure that what they develop effectively meets business requirements from both a functional and non-functional perspective.

The main objective of this role is to continuously evaluate and communicate the quality of the software, contributing to its continuous improvement. This role focuses mostly on component/application testing. This role is not only responsible for coding/testing but also responsible for deploying code to production and supporting it.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Write/Build test suites to validate functionality, capacity, security and consistency of software applications: frontend (web and mobile) & backend
• Issue software quality reports for each sprint
• Propose changes to improve the software quality
• Keep an updated catalogue of software defects/bugs
• Troubleshoot and debug escalated production Issues
• Estimate/Evaluate feature/stories as part of backlog grooming.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Very good understanding of Client-server architecture and Web architecture (HTTP)
• 2 Years of programming experience
• Experience with test planning and test automation
• Average understanding of SQA techniques
• Experience collaborating as part of a team and delivering on commitments

Must have technical skills:

• Design Tests cases that are concise, atomic, durable, understandable, deterministic and accurate (CADUDA)
• HTTP, SOAP & REST APIs
• Git & Linux, Relational & NoSQL Databases
• Python3 programming

Average understanding of following testing tools/frameworks:

1. Selenium
2. Appium

Preferred technical skills:

• Zephyr Scale, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), Grafana K6
• Docker Containers basics (Building & Running), Kubernetes & Helm basics (deploying and debugging applications)
• AWS Basics (Lambda Functions, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, ECS, API Gateway)
• Gitlab-CI/GitHub Pipelines
• Swagger/OAS3, JWT, OAuth2, OpenID Connect.

Key performance indicators:

• Contribution level within Agile Squad.
• Compliance to dev standards & practices.
• Ability to meet deadlines and anticipate delays.