Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Our client in the Financial sector is looking for a senior QA engineer who will be the point of contact quality assurance for all technical products

Job Type: Contract
Work Mode: Fully Onsite
Renumeration: #600,000 net
Location: Marina Lagos

Key Responsibilities

Quality Assurance for all Technical Products

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback

• Develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality

• Monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.

• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools

• Meet with the software/product designers to determine quality assurance parameters.

• Review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)

• Lead the team in designing QA test procedures.

• Oversee the drafting of testing documents.

• Implement testing procedures and overseeing the QA process.

• Troubleshoot quality issues and modifying test procedures.

• Conduct analysis checks on product specifications.

• Review Quality Assurance reports.

• Ensure the successful deployment of products to the end-users.

• Respond to requests from the design team and management.

• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs

• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements

• Monitor debugging process results

• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions

• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Reporting Line

• This position reports to Head, Enterprise Systems Product.

Requirements

• Proven Experience in Software Quality Assurance

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

• At least 5 years of working experience in a quality assurance position within a business in a fast-paced and constantly evolving market.

• Proven experience in database testing in SQL inclusive of experience in the design and manipulation of test data and the validation of stored testing procedures.

• Experience working with various QA tools inclusive of bug and defect tracking systems.

• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

• Good understanding of one or more programming languages and strong working knowledge Java and Python scripting languages.

• Have extensive experience in analytics, high-level problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage project.

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills.

• Critical thinker; detail oriented.

• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases

• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing

• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools

• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

Start Up Environment

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.