Career Opportinities at SQS Group

Job description

• Directs and manages the full project-life cycle, setting standards for assignments and applications. Responsible for the delivery of the defined work packages to the client and providing effective management to teams and giving guidance to others and key business users. Provides management for the team in planning, designing, and developing frameworks and procedures relating to quality whilst meeting on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off. Proactively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Uses project planning tools and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs. Develops a fit-for-purpose reporting mechanism.
• Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
• Specifies the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution. Consults with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability.
• Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines.
• Provides quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• Diagnoses problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions. Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Identifies potential consequences and risk levels.
• Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach. Defines and implements quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral. Identifies opportunities to expand client assignments.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Programming skills
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification

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Job description

• Entry level in the Quality Engineering job family. Working as part of a team executing effective and professional quality engineering services aligned with SQS methodologies. Works under the supervision of a senior team member. Learning the basics of Quality Engineering. Delivers in own area and contributes to overall on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Contributes to the successful completion of projects and works on small projects, progressing to working on multiple phases of a project. Works within low risk and low complexity projects.
• Applies data analysis and data modelling techniques to modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Creates and executes basic non-functional test scripts following a given set of guidelines and sets up test environments, data and monitors.
• Designs, codes, tests and documents simple programs or scripts and assists in the implementation of software which forms part of a properly engineered system.
• Collates and reports information, investigates to define problems more accurately and identify trends and exceptions.
• Successfully works with databases and operating systems to read, update, insert and delete information.
• Uses agreed standards and tools from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations. Collaborates in reviews of specifications, with others as appropriate.
• Maintains the status of project responsibilities and works across teams to achieve group goals.
• Takes ownership of own career development, demonstrating progress toward professional goals.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.

go to method of application »

Job description

Directs and manages the full project-life cycle, setting standards for assignments and applications. Responsible for the delivery of the defined work packages to the client and providing effective management to teams and giving guidance to others and key business users. Provides management for the team in planning, designing, and developing frameworks and procedures relating to quality whilst meeting on-time and on-budget project goals.

• Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off. Proactively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Uses project planning tools and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs. Develops a fit-for-purpose reporting mechanism.
• Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
• Specifies the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution. Consults with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability.
• Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines.
• Provides quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• Diagnoses problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions. Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Identifies potential consequences and risk levels.
• Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach. Defines and implements quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral. Identifies opportunities to expand client assignments.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Programming skills
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification

go to method of application »

Job description

• Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or co-ordinating a technical area. Leads technical areas within Quality Assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on budget project goals.
• Leads or runs multiple phases of technical areas within a project or projects of moderate scope or complex assignments, responsible for a certain test area.
• Assures the project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance and vison in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Participates in formal reviews of business requirements and application designs and ensuring proper test coverage based on requirements and design specifications. Defines changes to processes or working instructions.
• Refines requirements by talking to relevant business stakeholders and recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and processes. Has an understanding of the overall test strategy.
• Leads the test design plans, establishing the test scenarios and determines the entrance and exit criteria.
• Creates systems and business relevant test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of functional specifications.
• Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives, risks, and benefits for a range of potential solutions.
• Analyses and reports on overall test status and results, identifing issues and reporting to relevant stakeholders. Manages risks to the success of the project.
• Identifies and manages the critical path of testing and ensures execution of project regression tasks. Defines regression tests for future projects and defines and co-ordinates product verification and validation.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

go to method of application »

Job description

• Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or co-ordinating a technical area. Leads technical areas within Quality Assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on budget project goals.
• Leads or runs multiple phases of technical areas within a project or projects of moderate scope or complex assignments, responsible for a certain test area.
• Assures the project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance and vison in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Participates in formal reviews of business requirements and application designs and ensuring proper test coverage based on requirements and design specifications. Defines changes to processes or working instructions.
• Refines requirements by talking to relevant business stakeholders and recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and processes. Has an understanding of the overall test strategy.
• Leads the test design plans, establishing the test scenarios and determines the entrance and exit criteria.
• Creates systems and business relevant test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of functional specifications.
• Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives, risks, and benefits for a range of potential solutions.
• Analyses and reports on overall test status and results, identifing issues and reporting to relevant stakeholders. Manages risks to the success of the project.
• Identifies and manages the critical path of testing and ensures execution of project regression tasks. Defines regression tests for future projects and defines and co-ordinates product verification and validation.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

go to method of application »

Job description

• Entry level in the Quality Engineering job family. Working as part of a team executing effective and professional quality engineering services aligned with SQS methodologies. Works under the supervision of a senior team member. Learning the basics of Quality Engineering. Delivers in own area and contributes to overall on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Contributes to the successful completion of projects and works on small projects, progressing to working on multiple phases of a project. Works within low risk and low complexity projects.
• Applies data analysis and data modelling techniques to modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Creates and executes basic non-functional test scripts following a given set of guidelines and sets up test environments, data and monitors.
• Designs, codes, tests and documents simple programs or scripts and assists in the implementation of software which forms part of a properly engineered system.
• Collates and reports information, investigates to define problems more accurately and identify trends and exceptions.
• Successfully works with databases and operating systems to read, update, insert and delete information.
• Uses agreed standards and tools from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations. Collaborates in reviews of specifications, with others as appropriate.
• Maintains the status of project responsibilities and works across teams to achieve group goals.
• Takes ownership of own career development, demonstrating progress toward professional goals.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation

Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering

• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.