Quality Assurance Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

The QA Engineer is responsible for designing and executing test plans and test cases to verify that the system meets business requirements, focusing on the technical aspects of the product and ensuring that the software functions properly from a technical standpoint, and ensuring that flyadeal Digital Services are functions correctly and delivers a high-quality user experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement both manual and automated testing, with a focus on analysing and validating that the product is free of defects and works as intended.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
• Translate business and technical requirements into detailed test cases.
• Design, develop, and document test cases that cover all functionalities of the system.
• Execute test cases (manual or automated) and recording the outcomes.
• Validate that the software behaves as expected and meets all specified requirements.
• Conduct regression testing to ensure that changes or updates don’t introduce new defects or break existing functionality
• Identify, isolate, and log defects during the testing process.
• Provide detailed defect reports, including steps to reproduce, severity, priority, and impact on the system.
• Work closely with developers to resolve issues and re-test fixed defects.
• Perform functional testing to verify that the system behaves according to specifications.
• Perform non-functional testing, such as usability, compatibility, and performance testing, depending on the project.
• Collaborate with QA Lead, development teams, product managers, Cybersecurity team, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on quality goals.
• Attend project meetings to discuss progress, issues, and testing timelines.
• Clearly communicate test results, defects, and risks to all relevant parties.
• Maintain comprehensive and well-organized documentation, including test plans, test cases, defect reports, and test results.
• Ensure that testing documentation is up to date and accessible for future reference.

Desired candidate profile

Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field.
Minimum 2 years’ experience in IT Quality Assurance roles with testing methodologies, test automation, and quality assurance tools.
Solid knowledge and proven experience with test management and automation tools
Basic knowledge of backend testing, validating data integrity, and running queries to test database interactions
Knowledge of bug tracking tools like JIRA, Bugzilla, or HP ALM to log, track, and report issues.
Familiarity with regulatory requirements and industry standards related to IT quality assurance.
Ability to understand complex systems, break down functionality, and identify potential edge cases or scenarios that need testing.
Proficiency in manual testing techniques
Strong skills in writing clear, concise test cases and defect reports and in results presentation.
Clearly communicate test results, defects, and risks to all relevant parties.
Maintain comprehensive and well-organized documentation, including test plans, test cases, defect reports, and test results.
Ensure that testing documentation is up to date and accessible for future reference.