Quality Assurance Consultant - Regional at Inkomoko

About the Opportunity

The Quality Assurance Consultant will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, functionality, accuracy, and security of our systems/platforms. You will be responsible for designing and executing test strategies, creating test plans and test cases, identifying and ensuring issues/system bugs are resolved in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Test Planning

• Develop and implement functional, regression, and performance test plans and test cases.
• Ensure that test cases are aligned with system requirements and maintain a traceability matrix.
• Review business / technical requirements and convert them to QA test plans, cases, and scripts.

Testing Execution

• Set up and maintain test environments and configurations.
• Perform unit, functional, integration, system, security, and regression tests.
• Execute tests to identify system defects, anomalies, and inconsistencies both on web and mobile applications.
• Execute test cases and document defects, providing detailed information and working with the development team to ensure timely resolution.

Defect Management

• Categorize and prioritize defects based on severity and impact.
• Document, verify and discuss with the development team defects on Jira.

Test Reporting

• Generate test reports with findings and recommendations.
• Communicate test progress and results to project stakeholders.
• Participate in test readiness and test closure activities, including test summary reports.

Collaboration

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, business analyst, and
• project managers, to ensure the overall success of projects.
• Conduct internal training on various products once completed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to validate and document user acceptance testing (UAT) and sign offs.

Minimum Qualifications

Successful candidates will embody our organizational culture and mission to support entrepreneurs. Our work environment is fast-paced, positive, solutions-oriented, and we have very high standards. 

Qualifications include: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years experience in Software testing and quality assurance
• Proven experience in quality assurance and software testing, with a focus on core banking systems.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, test processes, and best practices.
• Experience with test management tools and test automation frameworks e.g., JIRA.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB) would be a plus.