Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - KE at Tala (formerly InVenture)

Responsibilities

• Work in a hands-on, collaborative environment with top product managers and engineers to build breakthrough experiences and products that solve our users’ most critical needs
• Participate in product grooming sessions with product managers and engineers to understand product goals, features, details, etc.
• Review product specifications (including requirements, flowcharts, designs, etc.) in order to prepare test plans and test scenarios
• Manually execute test plans, scenarios, and cases to ensure the customer experience matches defined product specs
• File clear and concise bug tickets to help engineers fix product defects and issues
• Play a critical role in all releases by conducting regression and smoke tests in Staging and Production environments
• Verify critical production issues as neededInvolve in on-call rotations to support the production issues.
• Be involved in the Scrum process, including stand-ups and related activities
• Test established products as well as new product solutions for new business lines

Requirements

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in test tools and frameworks using Java/ Scala, Jenkins or similar CI-CD tools, Shell Scripting, Linux/ Mac OSX for either backend or frontend services
• Experience as a quality assurance analyst, software tester, or functional tester conducting manual testing of web and mobile products
• Experience in writing comprehensive test cases aligned with product requirementsAbility to understand the user’s mindset and how they might use the product
• Strong communication skills with all audiences
• Extreme attention to detailAbility to manage and prioritise multiple, diverse testing activities simultaneously
• Experience with Agile software development methodology using scrum, sprints, and JIRA
• Working knowledge of technical concepts including programming, logic, databases, SQL queries, data distributed across multiple systems, etc.
• Familiarity with third-party API concepts and integration
• Self-starter with the ability to take direction and work in a collaborative environment
• Comfort working in a remote environment
• Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team working in different timezones
• Preferred BS Degree in Computer Science and/or Math or equivalent skills