Senior Tester

**Job Title**:Senior Software Tester

**Introduction**

As a Senior Software Tester, you will be responsible for guaranteeing a level of quality for the end customer and to help the software development team identify problems early in the process. This role is one that is focused on creating quality deliverables and is responsible for making sure that the software development process doesn’t sacrifice quality over delivery speed. As part of this directive the role will be responsible to oversee a team of Software Testers,

**What do **they want**:

- Should be able to analyse information objectively and make a reasoned judgement through the evaluation of sources such as data, facts, observable phenomenon, and research findings.
- Takes time to consider how different parts of a system can influence one another and plans outcomes of tasks and processes accordingly. Requires an ability to harness multiple skill sets to establish a holistic view of a system and explain its behaviour.
- Systematically examines and evaluates data or information by breaking it into its component parts to uncover their interrelationships to establish trends, changes and to identify risks to make meaningful business decisions.

**What will you do**:

- Responsible for ensuring the implementation of a Project or Task meets the requirements as defined by the Functional Specification.
- Responsible for acting as the final proxy for the customer by ensuring a Project or Task is satisfies the customer’s requirements elegantly.
- Responsible for ensuring a Project or Task is released to the live system with as few defects present as possible.

Test Planning
- Builds Software Test Plans and Software Test Cases for each Functional Specification.
- Collaborates with Business Analysts in the development of Test Cases and provides input to the Business Analyst on requirements that will be difficult to test.
- Estimates the time required to execute the Test Plan.
- Ensure the testing cycle takes into account hard project deadlines.

Manual Testing
- Executes the Test Plan and Test Cases against new project requirements
- Executes regression Test Cases against modified system functionality
- Captures defects in the appropriate Defect Management System and allocates them to the appropriate Developer.
- Confirms that fixed defects have been correctly remedied and haven’t introduced any further and closes the issue in the Defect Management System.
- Performs ad-hoc testing of software still under development if requested by the Software Development Team.

Automated Testing
- Works with the Software Development Team to write unit test definitions that provide for good coverage of the System Under Test.
- Writes, debugs and tests unit test implementations, in collaboration with the Software Development Team.

Process Optimisation
- Continually evaluates the existing software testing processes and tools and offers suggestions on ways to improve these processes.
- Participates in Post-mortem project meetings and offers input on lessons learnt, both positive and negative.

**What you **n**eed to **succeed**:

- A relevant Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology Degree or Diploma will be advantageous
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Software Tester
- Proven track record of successfully being a part of a fully-fledged multi-skilled development team

**The working conditions**:

- Remote work
- Extended working hours where applicable