QA engineer

Description

Location: Sthlm or Kalmar

Start: Asap, 6 months option to extend

A software quality assurance (QA) engineer monitors every phase of the development

process to ensure that the design and software adhere to company standards.

The essence of the role

Software faults are costly for a company, so it's vital for releases to meet target dates

and are deployed with no service disruption. A software quality assurance engineer

helps meet deadlines and quality targets by developing and executing testing goals and

relaying any issues back to the development and product teams or leaders.

The QA engineer will also own the last test before functionality go into production, and

these tests shall be regression-, stress-, performance-, blackbox- and negative tests to

ensure highest quality standards. The QA engineer will drive so that these tests are

automated in the highest degree, and that they can be done in a repetitive-, cost and

time efficient way.

This function will own the staging environment, assist engineering and other functions

to test their software before being deployed.

As our new Quality Assurance Engineer you will:

• Structure Quality Assurance within Operations, which includes processes, tools,

way of working between teams at Sinch.

• Be part of integration projects for our messaging platform as a technical

resource from Service Operations.

• Act as a bridge between Sinch Service Operations and Operator Division,

Engineering, Infrastructure and Network Operations.

• Drive the integration plan for new releases and deployments in Nova production

platform with Engineering and Operator Division.

• Role will include Stress-, Negative-, Regression-, performance- and Blackbox

testing of the platform environment and application level.

• Maintaining the messaging Staging environment

• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs

• Develop and execute strategy regarding test scenarios, plans and procedures

• Understanding Customer Issues for the Product and working with the relevant

Software Developers to devise a new function, test plan and push for completion

into production environment

• Document functionality of new releases and functions to ensure quality across

the production platform for all teams

Education and Experience

• Education: Preferably at least a bachelor’s or master's degree in software design,

engineering, or computer science.

• Experience: 3+ years of practical experience in using and understanding

software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, knowledge of Java, SQL and

scripting.

• Experience in software development cycles.

To be successful in this role you need:

• An adaptable mind-set - The work environment is very agile and flexible which

sets demands that you can shift easily

• Very good communications skills - you will interact with a lot of different people

• Be driven as a person - Need to work proactively to find issues and report them

• Time management skills - Prioritize tasks and be adaptable towards other team's

deadlines