A leading IT company based in Canada is hiring for their Colombo office.

GBP pegged salary and flexible work hours.

Role

The QA Engineer is part of the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) and works closely with product owners, development teams, and other members of the TCOE. QA Engineers participate in backlog refinements to ensure that all requirements are being captured; develop test cases, create, review, and maintain manual and automated test cases, with the ability to perform demos; provide the status of the testing tasks and the progress during team stand-ups. They are responsible for logging and organizing bugs in Jira, ensuring that the standards and requirements of our software application are being met, and being an advocate for the client and end user.

Responsibilities
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases using Jira... and X-Ray.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Design, develop and execute automation test packs.
• Identify, record, thoroughly document and track bugs.
• Perform extensive regression testing for release certification and bug resolution.
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.
• Analyze test results of varying complexity and offer observations for improvement and/or resolution.
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions.
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.

Qualifications
• Minimum 3+ years of software automation experience.
• Experience in working as part of a Scrum team and using supporting apps (Jira) to deliver software in an Agile fashion.
• Understanding of the entire software development life cycle, test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Stress & Scale, Smoke & Sanity) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and concepts.
• Experienced in UI & SOAP/REST API automation ranging from tool identification to implementation to maintenance of automation test suites.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated tests using Java-based API test frameworks (Jest, REST Assured, Spock, Junit).
• Familiarity with writing and executing E2E automated tests.
• Familiarity with operating and troubleshooting within popular web browsers.
• Knowledge of SQL database concepts and proven ability to understand and write queries.
• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment.
• Understanding of existing QA best practices and methodologies to design, implement and automate processes.
• Experience coordinating with external departments and stakeholders.
• Prior success using a metrics-driven approach and closed-loop feedback to improve software deliverables and improve the predictability and reliability of releases
Colombo Sri Lanka

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