Senior QA Engineer

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• The Senior QA Engineer will develop test cases, execute and validate the results using automated or manual methods as required.  Will be required to execute test cases with a meticulous attention to detail for all areas of the system product and then capture, analyze and summarize results and if required produce a defect report.
• The Senior QA Engineer will also take responsibility for ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking
• It is important for the Senior QA Engineer to oversee the delivery and maintenance of automated scenarios and frameworks based on industry best practices.
   

• Recognized IT Qualification
• FTI or ISTQB Fundamentals of QA Qualification
• 5 years+ working in QA Industry.
• Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the company’s QA processes and strategies.
• Have strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, ideally in a continuous delivery environment.
   

What you’ll need to bring to the party

• Experience within industry standard API and cross-browser manual and automation test suites. Currently using:
• Lambatest 
• Cypress
• Experience in Jira and Confluence.
• Experience working with Code. Repositories and Automated Build Tools.
• Experience in Automation Testing as well as Functional Testing.
• Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and implemented correctly.
• Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognized Best Practices.
• Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing.
• Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognized Best Practices.
• Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing.
• Flexible with the ability to and work under pressure.
• Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker and assertive.
• Able to motivate a team, recognize good talent and bring out the best out of each individual.
• A mature and professional individual who is self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Excellent communicator, influencing skills and negotiation skills to get management buy-in on ideas and concepts.
• Able to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the organization.
• Providing leadership
• Building and maintaining relationships.
• The ability to prioritize work and tasks under pressure.
• Ability to handle conflict effectively.

What you’ll be doing 

• Responsible for Defining QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects.
• Responsible for leading and mentoring junior/intermediate QA Engineers within the team.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise within test automation and quality assurance.
• Be accountable for the test automation projects.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined.
• Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation.
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards.
• Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders.
• Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.
• Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework. Driving and improving in areas of automated testing and agile testing.
• Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques across the teams.
• Work with Product Development Manager to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.