Senior Software Quality Engineer

About the role

A company is looking for a Senior Software Quality Engineer to lead its quality assurance efforts and deliver high-quality software. You will work closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to define acceptance criteria and build robust testing strategies for complex software systems.

Key responsibilities

• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts to write user story acceptance criteria.
• Analyse and decompose complex systems to design a holistic test strategy.
• Research emerging technologies and build a test automation framework.
• Create and maintain test suites covering various scenarios and cases.
• Apply a risk-based approach to test automation and run time-boxed exploratory testing.
• Maintain the regression test suite in the QA nightly build and refine the smoke test suite in the Development CI environment.
• Lead system integration testing with other system owners and manage user acceptance testing.
• Oversee the defect life cycle, manage test artifacts and maintain the test repository.
• Drive continuous improvement in agile testing practices and tools.
• Take on secondary roles as Application Performance Engineer or Application Security Engineer as needed.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in exploratory testing and regression test automation.
• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
• Certification as a Software Testing Professional and/or Software Quality Analyst is advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent communication with stakeholders.

Required skills

• Proficiency in agile development environments is a plus.
• Familiarity with test automation tools such as Robot Framework, SikuliX, Selenium, Playwright or Micro Focus testing tools (Mobile Center, UFT, QC, Sprinter).