Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Departmeny: Engineering

The Role

• As a Quality Assurance Engineer, your primary responsibilities will be bug detection, user satisfaction, design, and executing tests in a fast-paced environment while maintaining the product's quality and assisting other team members where applicable.
• The team seeks a customer-focused, passionate, and committed Quality Assurance Engineer who will strive for quality and excellence in the company’s products as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be
Test Strategy, Planning Execution:

• Collaborate with other QA members on the team to maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts for your product.
• Work closely with product managers and engineering leads to review requirements, and develop detailed test scenarios and test cases.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to product quality and testing processes.
• Drive the execution of test strategies, including manual and automated testing. Performance testing is a plus.
• Ensure thorough test coverage by tracking key quality metrics.
• Create and maintain QA documentation.
• Identify and implement appropriate testing tools and frameworks in collaboration with QA leads to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Bug Reporting and Tracking:

• Verify fixes and perform regression testing to ensure that resolved issues do not reoccur.
• When a product does not perform within specifications or user experience, identify, recreate, and log defects on JIRA while recommending possible solutions and improvements.
• Conduct root cause analysis of defects to identify improvements and prevent recurrence.

Automation and Tooling:

• Integrate automated tests into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Work with other senior QA engineers and managers to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks to increase test coverage and reduce manual testing effort.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Communicate QA status, progress, and risks to project stakeholders and team leads.
• Work closely with product owners, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and provide QA input during the design and development phases.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and other Agile ceremonies to represent QA interests.

Mentorship and Team Development (With Guidance):

• Collaborate with product management, development, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of QA activities into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Conduct reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and standards.
• Lead training sessions and knowledge-sharing activities to enhance the skill set of the other team members.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level QA engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Guide the team's QA members in designing, developing, and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Advocate for QA metrics to measure and improve product quality and testing performance.

Continuous Learning and Improvement:

• Participate in knowledge sharing with other QA team members.
• Always seek feedback and opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and drive initiatives to enhance QA efficiency and effectiveness.
• Stay up-to-date with software testing and quality assurance industry trends, tools, and best practices.

General:

• Ensure personal information of customers, employees, and other individuals the company conducts business with is processed and protected in line with applicable data privacy policies, privacy laws, and global best practices.
• Perform any other duties that may be required. (e.g May assist in recruitment)
• You should be comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously and in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements
Required competency and skillset to be a Waver:

• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and testing methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with bug tracking and test management tools (Preferably JIRA)
• Ability to mentor and develop junior and mid-level QA engineers.
• Have hands-on working experience and a firm hold in Java programming language.
• Good research skills.
• Extensive experience in API testing (Manual and automation).
• Experience with performance testing tools is a plus.
• Certification in quality assurance (e.g., ISTQB) is a plus.
• Self-motivated and willing to learn.
• Experience with Java-based automation frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, and Rest-Assured.
• Proven work experience in software testing (4-6 years). Preferably in the Fintech space.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and clearly articulate to stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience with tools like Git.
• Experience with Playwright is a plus.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies