Intermediate Software Quality Assurance Engineer at NTT Ltd.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Guide the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.
• Participate in Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.
• Work with the required user community (such as Regions) to understand business requirements and address regional UAT concerns for each release by ensuring a comprehensive end-to-end testing coverage.
• Design and implement end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions.
• Review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g., defect densities and open defect counts).
• Perform and document risk analysis and record test progress and results. Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Design, develop, code, and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs and develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Develop standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
• Make recommendations that will enable innovation and streamline overall testing processes.
• Research new tools, technologies, and testing processes as well as user interfaces for consistency and functionality.
• Support and document established QA processes and best practices in Agile Scrum development methodology and influence the continuous improvement of the QA activities.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Good interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
• Good team players and maintain the integrity and display good attention to detail.
• Ability to understand and analyze complex systems.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Knowledge of software development process.
• Familiarity with agile development such as Scrum.
• Knowledge of software integrated development environments.
• Ability to handle client and customer issues tactfully and professionally.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• General IT Degree or Diploma with Programming as a subject or 1 year Microsoft aligned Programming Diploma.
• ISTQB Foundation Certificate.
• ISTQB Automation Engineer Certificate (Advantageous).

Required Experience:

• 3 -4 years of experience in Software QA testing with a focus on automation and manual testing.
• Must be able to write code (C# & SQL).
• Experience in writing SQL queries.
• Experience using Git and Jira.
• Experience with load testing tools to evaluate system performance.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or SoapUI.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium.
• Demonstrated hands-on testing experience in AGILE/DevOps Methodology, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
• Proven work experience in software development.
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance.