Quality Assurance Officer

About this role

Overall Objective

• Ensure the products and feature developed adhere to the defined software requirements.

• Assessing software quality by designing and implementing software testing processes.

• Hunt bugs, identify issues, report them, and manage the resolution process and release of software and features.

• Provide feedback loop to the development teams, product manager and project managers on improvement areas for future releases.

Detailed Description
Responsibilities

• Review and analyze requirements, specifications, and technical design
documents, providing timely feedback.

• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test
cases.

• Prioritize and plan testing activities.

• Play the role of test engineer: Design, develop, and execute automated
tests.

• Identify and report issues found, then verify that issues are resolved.

• Perform regression testing.

• Help diagnose and troubleshoot issues from first line support.

• Conduct user surveys and understanding feedback.

• Any other related tasks that may be assigned to you from time to time

Skill Set and Qualifications
Key Capabilities

• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle.

• Proven work experience in software quality assurance

• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools

• Keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence

• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and
learn from them.

• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process
improvements.

• Ability to work in a distributed team.

• Basic understanding of AWS technologies and Information Security

• Critical thinking and understanding of requirements and issues.

• Fluent in English and Kiswahili

ExperienceMinimum 3-4 years on hands experience
Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or
equivalent

• Professional qualification in testing is an added advantage

• AWS Services basic understanding

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