Senior QA Engineer

Job Description & Requirements

The Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer’s role is to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality.

Senior QA Engineer responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)

The Senior QA Engineer role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. The Senior QA Engineer will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs while being cost-effective.

This role provides end-to-end solutions to software quality problems and ultimately, the Senior QA Engineer should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Document results of tests for the software development team
• Recommend improvements in software to enhance user experience
• Works together with the software developer to enhance and improve programs