Usability & Tester Research at Kilimall

Responsibilities for the Research job:

• Develop, recommend and monitor corrective and preventive actions
• Prepare reports to communicate outcomes of quality activities.
• Learn about Kilimall Systems and Identify training needs and organize training interventions to meet quality standards.
• Maintain product consistency throughout product cycle, to include the design, define and build phases through quality checkpoints and testing. Develop and manage quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams.
• Evaluate and test software programs to verify programs function according to user requirements.
• Write, review, revise and verify quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation.
• Participate in review of standards, procedures, tools and process.
• Prepare and develop test strategies and test plans.
• Assist project leaders in solving quality assurance issues.
• Assist in disaster recovery testing.
• Investigate customer complaints and non-conformance issues. Collect and compile statistical quality data.

Qualifications for the Research job;

• Technical Capacity.
• Communication Proficiency.
• Collaboration.
• Teamwork Orientation.
• Project Management.
• Time Management.

Required Skills for the Research job:

• Understanding of the SDLC and Change Management processes.
• Writing test cases for Mobile Native Apps.
• Experience with Agile Methodologies.
• Excellent PC skills with a strong working knowledge of associated applications and test case experience.
• Strong mobile technology aptitude and test case experience.
• 3+ years’ experience planning, designing and executing test approaches and test cases for multiple application architectures using exploratory and scripted means to address test coverage expectations.
• Proven understanding of all phases of testing – Proven experience with a range of testing techniques including: Component (Black Box), White Box, and Gray box testing, Risk Based, Exploratory Charters.
• 3+ years’ experience in both UI & web applications.
• Experience with and strong understanding of web services & API testing and the technologies that support them.
• 1+ year experience in testing of mobile web or native applications for Android platforms.
• 2+ years working in an iterative or agile project environment.
• BS.c in Computer Science or any other relevant field relating to the job.

NB: The position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Key Performance Indicators;

• Submit honest and reliable findings.
• Maintain threshold of active defects.
• Maintain a high number of defects fixed per day.
• Make sure systems pass the requirements and test stage before release.
• Reduce test time by 15% by the first quarter.
• Reduce escaped defects by 20% by first quarter.
• Provide new ideas for the systems in place.