QA engineer 3

Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.?

- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.?

- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.

Specific accountabilities:

Test strategy

* Attend to specification/architecture reviews (also on customer specification reviews when applicable), and provide feedback along with any potential impact, risk, issue or missed gap based on experience

* Define test strategy and test plan containing test cases (functional and non-functional), ensure traceability with specifications and customer requirements

* Ensure compliance of test strategy with CI/CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), QA best practices/standards from the industry (ISTQB..)

Test expertise

* Design test cases and write test case scripts

* Prepare test environment, test data, and execute test cases

* Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria

* Continuously assess the need to add/update/remove test cases to existing regression and CI/CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (stabilization, deletion of flaky tests...)

* As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordingly

Test automation

* Assess necessity to automate subset of (or all) test scripts

* Use test automation framework and contribute to its improvement

Defect management

* Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defects

* Check defect fix, and give go/no-go for the load of production defects

Reporting

* Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product definitions analysts

* Provide visibility on testing campaign/milestones to all stakeholders