Software Quality Assurance Specialist

Software Quality Assurance Specialist Makkays, Pakistan

Education: BCS, BSSE, BIT or any other equivalent degree. Responsibilities: - Responsible for the quality evaluation and reporting of bugs and non-confirming elements of the assigned software projects in a specified time frame. - Create project work plan in coordination with the Product Manager/Asst. Product Manager. - Update the project work plan on a daily basis with both planned and unplanned activities. - Provide input to the project plan in terms of time estimates required for QA/QC related activities. - Maintain and update standard test cases. - Verify the standard test cases as applied by the development team. - Acquire understanding of domain knowledge/business logic and prepare functional test cases in coordination with the Product Manager/Asst. Project Manager. - Report bugs and enhancement-related suggestions and verify them to make them ready for delivery and categorization of bugs according to their significance. - Maintain bug reports using the Test Director and releases on VSS Server. - Verify the projects and patches as received for the first time or against the bugs after evaluating the project on standard as well as functional test cases and acquire next iteration date from the development team. - Verify issues/operational problems reported by the client/operations/stakeholders. - Test deployment package for fresh installation as well as for the upgrade. - Provide training to operations on patch/new releases. - Execute automated test scripts. - Keep track of the number of bugs reported in each category and prepare project reports specifying statistical data of bugs.

Job Specification

Qualifications: - Experience in Development/software configuration and testing. - At least one year (01) of experience in a similar role. - Sound knowledge of Black Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration, Regression Testing, and other test types. - Excellent database concepts with hands-on experience on SQL Server 2005/2008. - Hands-on knowledge about bug testing tools such as Mantis, Bugzilla, Test Director, etc. - Strong interpersonal and communication skills. - Ability to serve as a mentor for developers. - Ability to multitask. - Strong team player with the ability to lead. #J-18808-Ljbffr