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Quality Assurance Officer
Job description
Overall Objective
- Ensure the products and feature developed adhere to the defined software requirements.
- Assessing software quality by designing and implementing software testing processes.
- Hunt bugs, identify issues, report them, and manage the resolution process and release of software and features.
- Provide feedback loop to the development teams, product manager and project managers on improvement areas for future releases.
Detailed Description
Responsibilities
- Review and analyze requirements, specifications, and technical design documents, providing timely feedback.
- Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Prioritize and plan testing activities.
- Play the role of test engineer: Design, develop, and execute automated tests.
- Identify and report issues found, then verify that issues are resolved.
- Perform regression testing.
- Help diagnose and troubleshoot issues from first line support.
- Conduct user surveys and understanding feedback.
- Any other related tasks that may be assigned to you from time to time
Skill Set and Qualifications
Key Capabilities
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Proven work experience in software quality assurance
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
- Keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence
- Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
- Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.
- Ability to work in a distributed team.
- Basic understanding of AWS technologies and Information Security
- Critical thinking and understanding of requirements and issues.
- Fluent in English and Kiswahili
Experience
Minimum 3-4 years on hands experience
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
- Professional qualification in testing is an added advantage
- AWS Services basic understanding
