Software Quality Assurance Engineer / Tester

Job description / Role

Our client is a leading money transfer and foreign exchange company based in the GCC. They have been in continues operation since the 1920s. They are looking to recruit a Software Quality Assurance Engineer / Tester

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Identifies, analyzes, and documents problems with software applications following the established methodology and ability to write clear, concise well-structured documents.
- Write and execute test scenarios based on analysis of system requirements/ enhancement.
- Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
- Defect Life Cycle management and reporting through Product Tracker or similar tools such as Quality Center, Jira, etc.
- Evaluates and tests new software applications according to business and functional requirements.
- Communicates significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements.
- Prepares reports to communicate involvement and results of quality assurance activities.
- Prepares test plan with test cases and test scripts to test each software component and demonstrate the business condition under test and the expected results.
- Provides estimates and feedback to the Testing Team Leader for project scheduling purposes.
- Tests all projects according to business requirements and complete all test related tasks on time.
- Ensures high quality and accuracy is maintained through to software releases.

Requirements

- A Bachelor degree in Computer Science/IT/Software Engineering or equivalent and possesses good knowledge on Quality Assurance standards such as CMMI/ ISO and Compliance and Anti Money Laundering concepts.
- Minimum 2 years of quality assurance experience in a software development environment preferably using VB, C#, Access, SQL Server and Oracle 9i/10g.
- Strong background in Remittance/Foreign Exchange and Banking systems domains.
- Knowledge of automated testing tools like IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT) or similar tool.
- Experience and capable of testing API and Windows Services.
- Experience in Smoke, Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing.
- Non-Functional requirement testing exposure such as security, performance, compatibility, etc. testing.

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions:

• Banking & Finance
• Human Resources
• Oil & Gas
• Construction
• Architecture & Engineering