Senior Software QA Engineer

• Constant update on Europay Mastercard Visa (EMV) and PCI-PADSS standards, and apply such quality testing on applications delivered by developers.

• Facilitate certification testing with processors.

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents/specifications to provide timely and meaningful feedback

• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

• Collaborate with the development team to determine quality assurance parameters

• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing functionalities to meet client needs

• Implementation of best practices for software verification and validation test strategies

• Ensuring test system documentation consistency and completeness

• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

• Be able to breakdown task and delegate to smaller teams

• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

• Project information dissemination to the team

• Implementing testing procedures and overseeing the QA process.

• Troubleshooting quality issues and modifying test procedures.

• Provide root cause analysis to escalations and other important issues.

• Reviewing Quality Assurance reports.

• Ensuring the successful deployment of products into the market.

• Deliverables must meet quality standards set by the organization

• Responding to requests from the client, development team and management.

• Coach and train junior QAs in areas of expertise and take on extra responsibilities as the team grows;

• Participate in documentation of QA team methodologies and technical knowledge base for successors sake;

• Take initiative on QA automation strategy;

• Be able to work in a fast paced environment and find the right balance between delivering quality products and aggressive release cycles;

• Mentor, educate and support those around you;

• Perform functional, non-functional, regression, integration, performance testing;

• Comply with standard test guidelines and practices

• Identify testing issues and track them to closure

• Alert software developers to major quality issues

• Recommend improvements on testing practices or software engineering practices

• Works under general supervision and highly proactive