Specialist Quality Assurance

Job Description:

Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View:

• Oversee quality assurance processes for all products, working closely with staff to define the optimal solution for each issue that may arise and implement in-house quality procedures, standards and specifications. 

• Provide regular direction, mentoring, and coaching to QA team members, ensuring the success of the team's efforts. 

• Using testing techniques, design, develop, analyze test plans and strategies, write and execute test cases, and troubleshoot defects for applications. 

• Develops automation strategies that will enhance test execution, manual test coverage and the consistency of regression testing. 

• Determine integrated testing solutions that include cross dependencies between organizations and programs. 

• Collaborates with Program Managers, Dev leads, Architects to identifying test scenarios for large programs. 

• Develop data and environment strategies utilizing architectural skills and methodology to meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability and security needs. 

• Report defects and follow up on their closure.  

• Analyze test results, report test metrics, prepare and present test reports.  

• Communicate progress proactively and regularly using various tools and strategies (governance calls, stand-up calls, formal jeopardies, escalations, daily/weekly progress reports, defect metrics collections). 

• Coordinate with teams involving all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle and facilitate certification for production deployment.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field. 

• 5+ years of experience in in the software quality field including prior hands-on quality engineering experience. 

• 2+ years of experience in leading and managing QA resources 

• 2+ years of strong hands-on experience in QA automation using Spock/Groovy based Frameworks

• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and micro-service technologies. 

• Working knowledge of database, ability to write basic SQL/NoSQL queries. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in writing automation scripts using Spock/Groovy, Java, TestNG, Selenium 

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including requirements analysis and basic application architecture knowledge. 

• Familiarity with entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Performance and Volume, User Acceptance). 

• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found. 

• Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive and able to prioritize multiple tasks. 

• Self-motivated, works well independently and with others. 

Required Skills:

• Spock, Groovy, Java, Postman, Jira, Jenkins, Maven, Oracle, NoSQL (Cassandra, Postgres, Solr), Git/GitHub.

Good to Have Skills:

• REST Assured, Kafka or equivalent messaging service, TestNG, Telecom domain experience, Agile Methodologies, Microservices.

Optional Skills:

• Selenium Web Driver, Java Script, Pact.