QE Consultant

The Quality Engineering consultant is accountable for leading and managing quality engineering and assurance activities across a program, workstream, or multiple projects/initiatives. This role ensures the development, execution, and continuous improvement of test strategies, plans, automation, and quality standards to support the delivery of high-quality technology solutions. The incumbent adds value by driving best practices, compliance, and innovation in software testing, while leading and developing a team of test analysts to achieve organisational objectives.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Test Strategy, Planning, and Execution:

• Develop, publish, manage, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, automation scripts, status reports, defect logs, and exit reports.
• Identify and obtain required test data and test environments.
• Develop, publish, and manage testing estimates and financials.

Team Leadership:

• Manage and lead the testing activities of a workstream, program, or multiple projects/initiatives.
• Manage and lead a team of test analysts, including capacity management, performance management related to assigned projects/initiatives, productivity and quality of the team's work, and required compliance.
• Build team and individual capabilities by providing development opportunities such as job shadowing, special projects, and training.

Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement:

• Ensure adherence to QA/QE standards and support the implementation of new standards.
• Recognise and identify areas where policies, processes, procedures, tools/methodologies need to be changed or developed, or can be improved.
• Identify and implement continuous improvements.
• Track and report QA/QE metrics and KPIs such as velocity, defect slippage, etc.
• Identify, manage, and implement remediation for any noncompliance items and deviations.

Technical and Domain Expertise:

• Provide technical input and feedback on design, assess impact to testing, and find QA automation solutions based on the solution being implemented.
• Identify and implement automation, AI, or other emerging solutions to expedite testing, improve quality, and reduce costs.
• Apply extensive knowledge of software quality assurance, quality management, and problem-solving methodologies.

Requirements:

• 5-8 years of experience in QA/QE, 1-3 years of experience in development.
• Automation frameworks, tools, and libraries: Selenium WebDriver, Appium, TestNG, Junit.
• Programming languages commonly used for automation: Python, Java, JavaScript.
• Version control systems for code management, eg Git.
• Writing and executing automation test cases, custom functions, building object repositories for web and native page elements.
• Web technologies: HTML, CSS, web services.
• Basic knowledge of databases and SQL queries.
• Good to have: API testing and virtualisation, GitHub Copilot or other Gen AI-based tools, Git, Jira, Confluence, and/or other similar Agile, development, and QA tools.
• Nice to have: Parasoft, REST API, and/or other API testing and virtualisation tools.
• Perfecto and/or other mobile and browser testing tools.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to resolve operational or process issues.
• Ability to identify and implement continuous improvements in testing processes.