Job Openings Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

About the job Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities

  • Product Risk Analysis
    • Understand product, business and user context
    • Identify and prioritise product risks for testing
    • Provide input for project risk conversations
  • Test Case Development
    • Collaborate with the rest of the team (including the client) to develop acceptance criteria
    • Create Cucumber feature files in collaboration with software engineers on the team, so they can automate those tests
  • Test Execution
    • Exploratory testing
    • Capture test reporting (test evidence as well as defects found + steps to reproduce)
    • Collaborate with the rest of the team to help interpret automated test results to help the team maintain the underlying test suite.
    • Bigger blocks of manual testing for release candidates
  • Manage Project Workload
    • Work with PO and the rest of the team to deliver tested software
    • Test planning for the project: initial plan as well as on-going response to changing reality
    • Test planning per sprint
    • Collaborate with engineers & other team members on both scales of planning
    • Time management and prioritisation: working on multiple projects at once (we aim for a max of 2 simultaneous projects, but this is not always possible)
  • Keep current with industry and technology
    • Research tools and techniques
    • Suggest process improvement internally
  • General
    • Defend the quality of the end product. Be able to clearly and logically lay out the reasoning behind your position so clients and team members can understand.
    • Handle a variety of platforms: Android, iOS, Web

Skills

  • Comfortable with an agile software development environment.
  • Communication skills that allow you to collaborate and explain your process, approach and motivation to various stakeholders.
  • Mentoring junior team members.
  • Able to work well in a team as well as individually.
  • Zoom out to the big picture and zoom in on detail.
  • Estimate effort on tasks, prioritise work and deliver to deadlines but manage expectations pro-actively rather than working overtime to get the work done.
  • Excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding new solutions.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • A propensity to fail fast and learn fast and share both failure and learning with others.
  • Prioritising learning over being right. Understanding others rather than becoming defensive.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn independently.
  • Understanding the value of the client as part of the team rather than us & them.

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of full-time experience in making software (whether as dev, PM or other roles)

Nice to have

If you tick all the required boxes, the following things will give you an edge:

  • ISTQB foundation level certification
  • If you've started your own business before
  • If you've built something of your own
  • Active contributions to open source projects
  • A preference for a variety of work and horizontal training over deep specialist skills.
  • Aspirations to mentor and coach others

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