QA Test Software Engineer - Contract

QA TEST ENGINEER - CONTRACT - GALWAY, IRELAND - FINANCIAL SERVICES

This is an exciting opportunity for a QA Engineer. The QA Engineer is responsible for quality assurance & testing of my Clients software applications in order to support the installation of high quality software products into my Clients production environment.

RESPONSIBILITIESINCLUDE:

- Ensure traceability between test cases and requirements documentation.
- Proactively communicate with developers and business analysts to resolve issues or questions pertaining to test creation or execution.
- Translate business and systems requirements into technical test requirements.
- Analyse functional and technical system design for testability.
- Collaborate with project team resources to understand and prioritize system testing efforts
- Provide input to system test strategies.
- Define system test scenarios, create system test plans, design and author test cases and participate in the definition and execution of manual and/or automated system test scripts.
- Detect scope changes and escalate issues as appropriate.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

- At least 3 years' experience with the full spectrum of functional Quality Assurance testing and systems development life cycles.
- Previous experience with Quality Center required.
- Strong technical skills.
- Solid understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.
- Exposure to test automation desirable
- Ability to execute automated and/or manual functional or non-functional tests and report results.
- Ability to become the QA Subject Matter Expert for applications and data.
- Flexibility to travel as required (minimal).

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