Senior QA Analyst

About us

Appnovation is a global, full-service digital partner that combines Strategy, Experience & Design, Engineering and Managed Services. We build digital solutions that deliver real impact today and serve as foundations for future growth.  Bold ambition. Practical action. Endless possibilities.

As a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst in the APAC region you will be responsible for assisting on QA strategy, governance, and hands-on testing for a portfolio of projects. You will be expected to lead and take ownership of testing activities for APAC specific projects with limited supervision, and be able to devise Test Plans and Test Scenarios as required. Oversight and guidance will be provided by the QA Manager for the region where required, to ensure testing activities fit within the company’s overall QA strategy and approach.

You will need to work closely with a team of developers and other QAs as appropriate and, therefore, you will need to have strong communication skills and be adept at explaining defects, conveying ideas, being persuasive and dealing with a range of personalities. You should also be comfortable communicating both internally and externally to clients and various stakeholders during Sprint demos and UAT sessions.

You Will Have An Opportunity To:

• Creating, reviewing, updating test plans & test cases for web and mobile applications.
• Initial execution of manual test cases, for both user interface and functional.
• Executing tests across a range of devices (desktop, mobile, tablet).
• Creating defects and categorising by severity as appropriate, plus creating defect tracking reports as required.
• Participation and review of documentation / test results in all QA test phases such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, regression testing and UAT.
• Taking ownership and lead of testing efforts and suggesting advice / improvements to the process, both internally and with the client.
• Walk through the QA test cases and the QA test plan with the QA Lead prior to execution.
• Attend stand-ups internally and with the client.
• Participating in and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as required.

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, OR equivalent experience
• At least 4 years of formal testing experience with 1-2 years of test automation experience is preferred
• Communicate clearly and articulately testing progress and issues raised, including escalations as required.
• Understanding the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (eg. Jira, Bugzilla, etc.);
•  Experience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, implementing automated testing, executing test team activities, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes;
• Knowledge of software quality tools; web/mobile application testing; Windows OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS);
• Understanding of web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, etc; 
• Understanding of user-centric design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/multi-lingual and personalization considerations;
• Understanding of accessibility principles, standards, compliance, testing and validation;
• Understanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms;
• Fluency in English

Nice To Haves:

• Knowledge of automated test scripting and implementation using BDD frameworks such as Behat or Cucumber;
• Experience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman;
• Experience with SQL and relational databases;
• Experience with Python scripting and Pytest;
• Understanding of security and privacy by design principles, processes and tools;
• Understanding of data-driven and/or machine-learning applications.

Who you are 

• Self driven and self motivated to continuously learn and improve, both on a technical skill level and personally.
• Humble, aware that you are knowledgeable, but there is always more to learn.
• Ability to work easily in a team dynamic.
• Respecting other colleagues’ opinions, aware that everyone has different skills and valid inputs.