QA Engineer

Description

VIPRE Security, a brand of Ziff Davis, develops cybersecurity products focused on endpoint protection and email security together with advanced threat intelligence solutions. 

• Review product, feature, design specifications
• Define stories, create test plan
• Develop manual test cases
• Strive to automate wherever possible
• Help stakeholders in their estimation 
• Participate in sprint plannings, etc
• Perform functional and non-functional tests, system and end-to-end testing.
• Write clear and concise bug reports and help developers to narrow down issues
• Proactively work towards improving product and processes
• Coordinates to stakeholders, developers and meeting key dates, project milestones and progress reports.

Experience:

• Education and/or Certification Requirements
  • BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge and working experience in Software QA processes and methodologies.
• Experience in working in agile software development environment
• Having test automation and/or programming experience
• Comfortable in at least one of the technologies or similar tools for software testing:
• Frameworks: Appium, Robot Framework, PyTest
• Programming/Scripting Languages: e.g. Python, Bash, Powershell
• Experience of working in an agile development environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of different levels of testing (Unit, integration, acceptance, etc.)
• Understanding of different layers of the software like backend, API, UI, etc.
• Knowledge and experience in testing apps in different desktops and mobile operating systems such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
• Knowledge and experience in working with Docker containers and/or virtualized test environments e.g. VM/ware/VirtualBox, Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud virtual machines

Behavioural Qualities:

• Be a self-starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize work
• Good root cause analysis
• Integrity and commitment to quality
• Rational with good professional judgment, able to deal well with ambiguity
• Should be passionate about the quality of the product
• Motivate others and lead by example