The Quality & Test Specialist will ensure products meet specifications, design test strategies, execute tests, manage defects, and improve quality processes.
Company Description
Arηs Group, Part of Accenture, specializes in the management of complex public sector IT projects, including systems integration, informatics and analytics, solution implementation and program management. Our team helps lead clients through digital and information systems design, bringing expertise in a variety of areas ranging from software development, data science and security management to machine learning, cloud, and mobile development. Arηs Group was acquired by Accenture in July 2024.
Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities
The selected specialist will:
- Ensure that delivered and existing products, applications, or services comply with:
- Technical specifications
- User requirements
- User stories and use cases
- Diagnose and analyse failures in:
- Existing systems
- Applications
- New functionalities and enhancements
- Produce and maintain documentation supporting quality management processes
Core Tasks
- Analyse systems under testing to identify risks and requirements
- Design and implement comprehensive test strategies
- Create, design, and maintain test plans
- Define and develop test acceptance criteria
- Design and maintain test scripts and test data
- Prepare and manage test environments
- Execute testing activities and report results clearly and accurately
- Log, track, and manage defects and improvement opportunities
- Produce documentation to support QA and project quality processes
Additional Responsibilities (as required)
- Define the scope of test automation
- Select and evaluate appropriate automation tools
- Contribute to or develop test automation strategies
- Convert manual test cases into automated scripts
- Develop maintainable, scalable, and reusable test code
- Apply best practices for:
- Test naming conventions
- Test structure
- Assertions
- Maintain:
- Test data
- Configurations
- Reporting tools
- Contribute to:
- Test result analysis and reporting
- Defect tracking and resolution processes
- Design and implement tools and methodologies to assess software quality
- Develop and promote testing standards to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Bachelor's degree plus 6 years of experience in software testing / QA
- Strong experience in:
- Web technologies
- Microsoft applications and environments
- Testing procedures and platforms
- Integration testing
- Automation testing frameworks
- Quality and risk management procedures
- Technical documentation production
- Designing and executing testing strategies
- Working across multiple testing domains and tools
- Contributing to automation and quality improvements
- Delivering structured and high-quality documentation
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in complex or enterprise-level environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work autonomously and within cross-functional teams
- Attention to detail and commitment to quality excellence
Top Skills
Automation Testing Frameworks
Microsoft Applications
Web Technologies
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