Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

This is a remote position.

Summary of The Role

The Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of software products through comprehensive testing and quality control processes. This role involves developing and implementing test plans, executing manual and automated tests, and identifying defects to ensure products meet the company's standards and customer expectations. The Senior QA Engineer works closely with the development team to understand product requirements, participates in design reviews, and provides feedback to improve product quality.  

 

Role Responsibilities

• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities. 
  
• ​Manage and execute manual test case, define test scenarios and plan test executions.
  
• Escalate product issues and suggest product improvements, placing the customer’s needs ahead of all others. 
  
• Create and maintain detailed automated test cases and configure and maintain automation scripts. 
  
• Working on Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA). 
  
• Investigate and design/build solutions for any potential quality weak spots in our products / development workflow.      
  
• Actively ensure testing standards are being upheld and that test case specifications cover risk areas. 
  
• Creating Quality Tools (i.e. Process Maps, Control Plans, Checklists etc). 
  
• Achieve agreed productivity targets to ensure development tasks are delivered within budget and to schedule. 
  
• Issue Quality Assurance reports
  

Requirements

Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience 

• Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering or equivalent.
  
• Minimum 4 - 5 years of experience. 
  
• ISTQB Certification is a plus.
  
• Experience in SaaS testing
• Proficiency in JIRA. 
  
• Exposure to API testing, perform load testing and stress testing
  
• Understanding of quality principles, tools and techniques including testing concepts, methodologies and processes. 
  
• Experience in manual and automated testing of web and mobile applications. 
  
• Good exposure in Defect management. 
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills. 
  
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 
  
• Great organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks effectively. 
  

Personal Attributes  

• Must be accountable with a strong work ethic, a sense of urgency and ownership, and be able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
  
• Data driven, highly organized, and detailed oriented.
  
• Able to deliver as efficiently as possible without compromising quality or the customer experience.
  
• First class communicator with an ability to engage internal and customer stakeholders up …