Mission Statement for the Role:

To create clear and comprehensive release and deployment management plans by building, installing, testing, and deploying Release Packages efficiently, successfully and on schedule.

Overall Responsibility:

The Junior Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics for poa! Internet.

Key SMART Results for A-Player Success—Target, Year 1

• Reviewing and analysis of requirements, specifications, and technical design documents, providing timely feedback- Q4 2024
• Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release- Q1 2025
• Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders-Q4 2024
• Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations and bugs/issues per release are tracked-Q4 2024
• Work with Product management to create release guidelines to distribute across poa! internet-Q1 2025
• Measuring and monitoring the progress of releases after deployment-Q1 2025
• Providing weekly updates on release activities-Q42024

Level of Experience required (Mandatory & Nice to Have)

• Mandatory – Experience working in Software Development
• Mandatory – Continuous working experience in Software Quality Assurance

Department stage of development where this role sits (starting, preparing for scale, scaling, mature)

• Prepare for Scale / Systemization

Key Competencies – Criticality (H,M,L)

• Ability to use automated tools and execute automated test plans -H
• Good understanding and proficiency in programming languages –   H
• Good technical understanding and analysis of requirements, developing test approaches, writing comprehensive test plans and test cases, and preparing test data for data testing – H
• Skilled in the design, development and implementation of processes and procedures that drive standardised management of application life-cycle activities- H
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology to develop and execute application test plans, including continuous integration and test-driven development- H
• An understanding of quality assurance test methodologies, deliverables, processes, strategies, techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Ability to conduct needs analysis using requirements for various business processes, including information flow, reporting and applications for defined functional area; ability to document using standard terminology and formatting – H
• Knowledge and experience with JIRA for tracking of issues and tasks -H
• Good understanding of testing at various phases of life-cycle (unit, integration, system, acceptance, regression) and test efficiencies (performance, stress, capacity) – H
• Demonstrated experience with modern Application Life Cycle Management processes and tools for code management, version control, build management, continuous integration, integrated development environments, issue tracking, quality assurance, and test automation -H

Mandatory criteria, if any, with no exceptions to hire.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering (or similar) or equivalent relevant professional experience and education.
• One or more years working hands-on in software development.
• Two or more years working in software quality assurance.