Senior Software Quality Assurance

JOB PROFILE-

The job concentrates on overseeing the entire development process - from the beginning to the culmination of the development cycle, which includes software testing and keeps track of the delivery of the application. The focus is on quality, as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and performing testing to streamline the software development lifecycle. Your role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the quality and efficiency of software products and identifying opportunities for process improvement.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES-

• Participate in exploring issues related to the financial, technical, operational, and time management aspects of software development essential to creating functional specifications and design.
• Partake in the evaluation of new software component products including unit and functional tests automation.
• Develop, implement, and maintain test scripts and frameworks for functional, regression performance and integration testing.
• Collaborate with software development teams to define test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria for software features and projects.
• Propose, review, and validate software prototypes and propose improvements.
• Perform qualification and functional tests on the engineering designs to check if the software meets the required specifications.
• Demonstrate the design compliance according to the customers specifications.
• Oversee the creation of the product family tree and technical documents.
• Write technical proposals and requirements, and statements of work in line with the developed solutions.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build test and deployment processes, ensuring rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Create custom scripts, tools, and utilities to automate repetitive tasks, enhance test coverage, and improve the efficiency of development and testing processes.
• Support team building and alignment with processes
• Document automation processes, test cases, and best practices for reference and knowledge sharing within the team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• A Graduate Degree holder on at least one of the following disciplines : Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
• Professional license in relevant field of Engineering
• 5 years experience in software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools e.g., Selenium, Appium, JUnit, TestNG, JIRA).
• Familiarity with scripting languages commonly used for automation such as Python, Java, Ruby, or JavaScript.
• Software development tools, i.e., CLion or Visual Studio Code
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Communication protocols, i.e., Protocol Buffers, gRPC, ZMQ, Websockets

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES-

• SW and system troubleshooting and bugs analysis
• Software & Configuration Management Tools Maven, Git, BitBucket, etc.
• Collaboration Tracking Tools Jira, Confluence, etc. n Test automation tools and frameworks TestComplete, Selenium, ..
• Scripting languages -- Python, Ruby, or JavaScript
• Agile Methodologies Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Network communication protocols
• Containers and orchestration Dockers, Kubernetes, etc. n
• No SQL Databases
• Microservices Architecture
• OpenMap or GIS and geospatial software and solutions

VERTICAL - ENGINEERING