Software Test Engineer at Sage

Job description

We have an exciting position available for a Test Engineer. As a test engineer, you are required to be analytical while testing software against a business specification. You are required to create a suite of test cases to execute within the set software release deadline. Working within a greater quality assurance team, you should be committed to producing a quality software product for the payments market in Africa and Asia.

• Participate in the product life cycle sessions to help formulate acceptance criteria from a testing perspective, based on business requirements supplied
• Provide estimates for completing test cases and execution
• Test and re-test developed software to ensure that specified functional requirements are met
• Design automated testing measures to aid in bulk testing
• Record software defects on a tracking system to manage the defect process, and report results
• Evaluate potential defect risks/increases in scope/time and drive issues with developers and business analysts
• Communicate user experience improvement recommendations to the team
• Complete work within the specified project deadline
• Liaise with Support department on client logged defects
• Review functional specifications to extract business rules to compile formal test plans
• Generate, document and execute test cases using the applicable test methodologies
• Contribute to workload of testing team by efficiently managing time