Job Title

Associate QA Engineer

Common accountabilities:

- Works autonomously within defined processes and procedures or methodologies, takes standard decisions and may support the development of solutions to complex problems of a recurring nature.​
- Receives instruction, guidance and direction from more senior level roles or manager, with regular monitoring on the status of the assignments.​
- May have specialized formal education or the equivalent work experience and has the required technical and functional skills and basic knowledge of the business.

Specific accountabilities:

Test strategy
* Attend to specification/architecture reviews (also on customer specification reviews when applicable), and provide feedback along with any potential impact, risk, issue or missed gap based on experience,
* Define test strategy and test plan containing test cases (functional and non-functional), ensure traceability with specifications and customer requirements,
* Ensure compliance of test strategy with CI/CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), QA best practices/standards from the industry (ISTQB..),

Test expertise
* Design test cases and write test case scripts
* Prepare test environment, test data, and execute test cases
* Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria

Test automation
* Assess necessity to automate subset of (or all) test scripts
* Use test automation framework and contribute to its improvement

Defect management
* Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defects
* Check defect fix, and give go/no-go for the load of production defects

Reporting
* Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product definitions analysts
* Provide visibility on testing campaign/milestones to all stakeholders

Quality assurance ambassador
* Show accountability for the project, product or release quality control

Technicity
* Efficiently use QA tooling stack and frameworks
* Be proactive about any issue/change that is likely to affect QA peers daily job

Continuous and sustainable improvement
* Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities