Software Quality Assurance Engineer / Lead

Description

Department: Sales and Delivery Team - Empower

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Computer Software, Management Consulting

Location: South Africa, Remote (WFH)

Experience Range: 4-12 years

Basic Qualification: Masters / Bachelor of Engineering or Equivalent

Travel Requirements: Not required

Website: www.exusia.com

Exusia, a cutting-edge digital transformation Company is looking for top talent in Software QA & Test Automation wherein you will be a catalyst in both the development and testing of high priority initiatives. You will develop and test new products/solutions to support technology operations while maintaining exemplary standards.

What’s the Role?

The role will be an integral part of the IT project teams focused on quality engineering and ensuring the outcomes align with QA best practices. You will help optimize testing efficiencies across the Product delivery lifecycle. As a QA engineer, you will play an important role in ensuring efficient and quick feedback loops to drive software quality of releases. Your primary role will be to implement a test automation strategy - design and manage test packs including test automation and improve the quality.

Qualifications & Role Responsibilities

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years hands-on experience in software testing and quality assurance areas
• Good knowledge and exposure of both manual and automated testing methodologies
• Come up with test strategy,test plan and test cases based on user stories and requirements
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating quality testing activities
• Collaborate with DevOps teams and perform continuous testing in a fast paced agile environment
• Logging and tracking of quality assurance metrics e.g. defect densities and open defect counts etc
• Work closely with Quality Assurance Leads, Practise Leads, Developers, Architects, Product Owner and other Stakeholders to meet the expectations of our clients.
• Ensure all committed user stories and acceptance criteria are tested for the specific release ensuring quality is not compromised.
• Participate in the daily stand-up where necessary, manage the issues raised by the Software Quality & Test Engineers and raise relevant associated risks.
• Review that the test automation solution meets the architectural and development standards that are re-usable and scalable.
• Ensure the defect management process is adhered to by the Software Quality & Test Engineers.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills:

• Creation of test strategy and writing test cases and test scripts
• Design, develop & implement automated testing frameworks to support code and data validation.
• Strong scripting skills in Python,Linux shell scripting or any other language to write and execute test scripts
• Strong SQL skills to support data validation and reconciliation process
• Experience with Non functional testing including performance, usability,Vulnerability,load testing and compatibility testing
• Use of testing tools and frameworks, at least one of these tools - Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter
• Experience of implementing QA solutions within a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline
• Exposure to Object-orientated Programming (OOP) languages; C#, Java
• Mobile Test Automation
• Testing of Soap and RESTFUL services

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience operating under an Agile Scrum & DevOps methodology
• Exposure to working on Azure
• Exposure to Lending & Mortgage areas and a general understanding of Banking domain
• Certification in software testing (e.g., ISTQB, CSTE) is preferred
• Understanding of cloud testing strategies and tools.
• Experience in Agile delivery and exposure to Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development in a continuous delivery model.
• Understanding & implementation of DevOps pipelines & tools.

About Exusia

Exusia (http://exusia.com/) is a global technology consulting company that empowers its clients to gain a competitive edge by accelerating business objectives and providing strategy and solutions in data management and analytics. The company has established its leadership position by solving some of the world's largest and most complex data problems in the financial, healthcare, telecommunications and high technology industries.

Exusia’s mission is to transform the world through the innovative use of information.

Exusia was recognized by Inc. 5000 and by Crain’s publications as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the world. Since the company’s founding in 2012, Exusia has experienced an impressive seven years of revenue growth and has expanded its operations in the Americas, Asia, Africa and UK. Exusia has recently also been recognized by publications such as the CIO Review, Industry Era, Insight Success and the CIO Bulletin for the company’s innovation in IT Services, the Telecommunications and Healthcare industries and its entrepreneurship. The company is headquartered in Miami city of Florida, United States with development centers in Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Gurugram, India.