QA Engineer

Job description

The QA Engineer is the quality gatekeeper, responsible for ensuring that software is being delivered with the highest quality standards. The main mission is to reach quality excellence by having no issues in production as a continuous target.

The QA Engineer should know and understand the business details, being able to check whether the final result matches all the business expectations. The QA Engineer should create and execute manual and automated test scenarios, provide root cause analyses of defects based on metrics and proactively raise improvements that will enhance the quality of the product.

What will you do

As a member of an Agile team, you will be the main responsible for the quality of the product. You will ensure that the product is delivered with the highest quality by leveraging QA activities along with the scrum phases. Some of the daily basis activities are:

• Learning the product business and targets.
• Creating and executing Test case documents.
• Creating and executing test automation scripts (UI testing, API testing, etc).
• Ensure that the bugs are being properly registered and the root cause is being correctly set.
• Providing insights to the development team and stakeholders by making quality data visible through quality reports.
• Proposing actions that will improve the quality of the product.
• Leading demonstration meetings with the stakeholders.

Skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Good communication skills in English.
• Sharp attention to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of quality assurance terminology, methods, and tools.
• Demonstrated knowledge of testing best practices, version control practices, and defect management practices.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology and how QA functions within it.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with test automation tools, such as Selenium, Gherkin, Specflow, Postman, SoapUI, etc.
• Familiarity with git and version control tools.
• Professional certification in the Quality Assurance field.