Quality Assurance Officer

Shortlist; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Shortlist is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure quality across releases, design and run automated tests, and provide fast feedback to developers and product teams. You will help implement testing processes, perform regression testing, and support troubleshooting from first line to release.

Fluency in English and Kiswahili is preferred for collaboration across distributed teams. The role emphasizes hands-on testing, test plan development, and continuous improvement driven by feedback gathered from

Qualifications

• Must have practical experience in software quality assurance.
• Hands-on with automated testing tools and test plans.
• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle and QA processes.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design docs and provide feedback.
• Develop detailed test plans and test cases for features.
• Prioritize and plan testing activities effectively.
• Design, develop, and execute automated tests as a test engineer.
• Identify issues, report them, and verify fixes.
• Perform regression testing to ensure stability.
• Assist first-line support to diagnose issues.
• Gather user feedback and conduct surveys to inform improvements.
• Handle additional tasks as assigned.

Skills

Software QA

Test automation

Quality assurance

AWS

English & Kiswahili

Team collaboration

Feedback culture

Distributed teams

Security basics

SDLC knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/CS

Testing certification

AWS basics

Tools

AWS

Job description

Overall Objective

• Ensure the products and feature developed adhere to the defined software requirements.
• Assessing software quality by designing and implementing software testing processes.
• Hunt bugs, identify issues, report them, and manage the resolution process and release of software and features.
• Provide feedback loop to the development teams, product manager and project managers on improvement areas for future releases.

Detailed Description

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze requirements, specifications, and technical design
  documents, providing timely feedback.
• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test
  cases.
• Prioritize and plan testing activities.
• Play the role of test engineer: Design, develop, and execute automated
  tests.
• Identify and report issues found, then verify that issues are resolved.
• Perform regression testing.
• Help diagnose and troubleshoot issues from first line support.
• Conduct user surveys and understanding feedback.
• Any other related tasks that may be assigned to you from time to time

Skill Set and Qualifications

Key Capabilities

• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence
• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and
  learn from them.
• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process
  improvements.
• Ability to work in a distributed team.
• Basic understanding of AWS technologies and Information Security
• Critical thinking and understanding of requirements and issues.
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili

Experience

Minimum 3-4 years on hands experience

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or
  equivalent
• Professional qualification in testing is an added advantage
• AWS Services basic understanding

Originally posted on Himalayas