Quality Assurance Engineer job at Red Dot Distribution Ltd
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Vacancy title:
Quality Assurance Engineer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Science & Engineering ]

Jobs at:

Red Dot Distribution Ltd

Deadline of this Job:
16 November 2021  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 02, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in IT Department. In keeping with our current
business needs, we are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer to develop and execute
exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality.

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 QA technician role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.

Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of IT, the QA’s responsibilities include:

• Reviewing quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and
meaningful feedback
• Creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating quality testing activities
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and
meaningful feedback
• 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 such as selenium.
• 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
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Qualifications
• Proven work experience in software development
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

Work Hours: 8 12

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Job application procedure

Send your CV to careers@reddotdistribution.com with Quality Assurance as the subject head.


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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 16 November 2021  
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 02-11-2021
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 02-11-2021
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 02-11-2061
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