Senior Software Test Engineer

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Job Description

OBJECTIVES / PURPOSE

• As a Senior Software Test Engineer, you'll use your technical, teamwork and team leading skills, knowledge of testing and test automation, DevSecOps tools and methods to help deploy and improve our solutions.
• You will align and integrate well with testers, developers, engineers, analysts, scrum masters, delivery managers and other stakeholders.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead and coordinate various testing activities.
• Review user stories and evaluate their acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with others to recognize the potential for any operational issues, assess risks, and help to resolve issues before the new software is complete.
• Cooperate with other teams to understand full end-to-end use-cases to meet cross-functional requirements.
• Define, inform, and educate the team on best practices for test-driven development, automated testing methodologies, development workflow improvements, continuous integration/deployment, and release management.
• Create test approaches, test plans, test scenarios, test cases and automated test scripts for new or changed software.
• Implement software tests, using either manual or automated approaches, as well as exploratory testing.
• Run diverse sets of tests on new or changed software products to ensure they satisfy all specifications and requirements and evaluate results.
• Write detailed, high quality defect reports for any issues encountered during testing activities.
• Provide feedback to team members and stakeholders regarding usability and functionality and provide understandable test reports.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or other relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional hands-on experience in software testing on agile projects with a focus on team leading and test automation (preferably using tools such as Jira, qTest & Tosca).
• Experience with test planning and set-up of test strategies.
• Experience in testing web services.
• Solid experience with relational databases and/or NoSQL.
• Good experience with testing in the cloud.
• Excellent leadership, communication and presentation skills.
• Able to collaborate across multiple time zones.
• Interest in the newest testing and test automation trends and best practices.
• Very good in analyzing problems and developing solutions.
• Excellent in both oral and written communication in English.
• Team player with innovative thinking.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Access to transportation to attend meetings
• Ability to fly to meetings regionally and globally Travel Requirements –

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