SQA Analyst

The Position:

To be the Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst supporting the development team by executing tasks as part of the test plans for software development. Contribute to QA activities throughout the full life cycle of the development process, ensuring an understanding of which tasks are needed in order to support the development team in the production of new features and resolution of defects in order that software is delivered to a high level of quality. Contribute to the development of methodologies in relation to quality assurance and follow these methodologies when executing tasks.

The selected candidate will work from the Contour Software Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad office as part of the resource-center team, as an extension of the division-based R&D department.

Key Responsibilities:

Ensure all code and software is fully tested before being distributed to our customers.

Create, review, update, and execute test plans incorporating both positive and negative test scenarios.

Work with developers, the Product team, and the Support team to ensure all coding tasks have corresponding test scenarios.

Generate automated tests to identify issues at the earliest opportunity.

Use test automation frameworks and toolsets to create complex system test scripts.

Execute functional and regression test cases, log and manage test plan execution, and report on progress.

Report on defects resulting from test plan execution and inform the relevant development team members.

Assist the development team with defect investigation, reproduction, and resolution.

Support the Development Manager in identifying best practices and methodologies that could improve the quality of our software.

Understand how to qualify the performance of software and conduct performance testing in order to identify bottlenecks and areas of the software that need improvement, thereby ensuring that the software is both responsive and stable under agreed criteria.

Become involved in ad-hoc tasks as required.

Qualifications Required:

Essential - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Experience Required

Essential – Good communication skills, both verbally and in writing

Essential – A desire to learn new tools quickly and efficiently

Essential – An ability to understand and analyze testing data

Essential – A good understanding of test automation

Desirable – Knowledge of automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, etc

Desirable – An ability to understand and create both positive and negative tests

Desirable – A user's knowledge of Microsoft, Linux, IOS and Android operating systems

Desirable – Good experience working across all major Web Browsers.

Desirable – Experience with Financial (Accounting) systems

Desirable – A good understanding of test automation

Desirable – Knowledge of JIRA