Required Qualifications

• BSc. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a recognized university.
• 10+ years of post-graduate experience in the industry in Quality Engineering.
• Experience in test estimations, planning, and building quality reporting.
• Experience in software quality assurance and associated best practices.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum software development methodology.
• Experience in service-level testing with REST and SOAP APIs.
• Experience in the telecommunication domain will be an added advantage.
• Experience in managing small to large QA teams.
• Experience in mentoring/coaching junior QA engineers for their next-level development.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail.
• Willingness to take the initiative and adapt quickly to shifting priorities.
• Good experience in test management (Planning, design, execution).
• Very good experience in browser developer tools.
• Good experience in REST APIs (Manual and automated)
• Good understanding of structured and unstructured database technologies (My SQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.)
• Strong SQL query skills.
• Good understanding of CI/CD tool Jenkins and continuous testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Awareness of the delivery process, QA artifacts, tools, and methodologies specific to the organization/client.
• Authors QA plans for projects/phases/releases and maintains them effectively, ensuring overall quality and productivity in testing.
• Ability to recommend, design and develop testing strategies and approaches for multi-platform devices and diverse business domains.
• Ability to perform different types of testing, including functional, non-functional, structural, sanity, and regression, when needed.
• Ability to perform testing at different levels, including integration, system, and user acceptance, when needed.
• Ability to implement test scenarios and cases based on suited test design techniques.
• Ability to consistently adopt various tools and techniques to increase productivity in testing.
• Ability to understand and take part in reviewing requirements or technical specifications and proactively escalate any quality risks to all stakeholders.
• Ability to review QA artifacts such as test cases, test scenarios, and QA plans to verify standards.
• Ensure traceability is performed consistently for business requirements and technical specifications against the test scope.
• Responsible for on-time delivery and timely escalations/updates of risks, issues, progress, delays, and exemptions to management consistently and proactively.
• Ability to effectively and professionally communicate in a timely manner with the team, management, and internal and external customers regarding statuses, risks, issues, and progress of testing efforts.
• Author and compile metrics to measure test progress and quality outcomes.
• Develop and maintain test data sets, scripts, and databases for testing efforts.
• Ability to build, deploy and configure required testing environments and work with various source control, continuous integration, and build tools.
• Collaborate with engineering, PMO, UI/UX, and business analysis/consulting teams to review project schedules, requirements, designs, architectures, and guides/specifications to ensure quality and testability.
• Ability to conduct training on testing best practices, tools, and business domains when needed.
• Supports in defining QA and test processes based on theoretical knowledge and industry best practices/trends.
• Being a mentor and guiding juniors for successful project deliveries.
• Maintain appropriate professional affiliations and up-to-date knowledge of current software engineering and quality assurance techniques and tools.
• Ability to take the QA responsibility role in supporting in setting up new projects, leading teams, and participating in retrospective and project closure activities.
• Providing and taking responsibility for QA sign-off for client deliveries.
• Timely and accurate recording timesheets.