Software QA Specialist at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role:

Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance. By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics. Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose of Position 

Palladium/Data.FI is seeking to engage a skilled Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Specialist to join the QA team to ensure the functional readiness of software products for release. The SQA Specialist will be responsible for developing and implementing requisite technical quality assurance metrics, standards, and guidelines for software products, and working with the technical leadership in determining requisite technical quality thresholds and compliance requirements for project applications.

The specialist will be responsible for evaluating software functions and designing test protocols to ensure that products work as intended and meet internal and global digital standards. (S)he will be responsible for completing all testing procedures, suggesting performance changes, preparing performance reports, interfacing with end users to ascertain areas of improvement, and evaluating technical infrastructure for security issues and automation solutions. 

The Software QA Specialist will report to the Informatics Advisor.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Developing and spearheading compliance to software quality guidelines and standards.
• Automating end-to-end test scenarios for applications.
• Meeting with software development teams to discuss software specifications and controls.
• Designing manual and automated test procedures to evaluate each software product.
• Building, coding and implementing software evaluation test programs.
• Conducting software audits and providing feedback and recommendations for improvement to meet technical standards.
• Automating code testing procedures.
• Running test programs to ensure that testing protocols evaluate the software correctly.
• Tweaking the software testing systems for maximum performance.
• Finalizing and documenting testing procedures.
• Supporting technical documentation of software products as part of quality assurance before release.
• Completing final tests and creating test reports.
• Suggest software fixes.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a similar field.  
• Minimum 2 years of proven work experience as a software test engineer.
• In-depth knowledge of program testing software e.g., selenium/cypress.
• Advanced knowledge of debugging codes and software development languages e.g., Java.
• Advanced knowledge of software design and engineering.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience working with popular operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
• Ability to design and write complex software testing procedures.
• Ability to collate data and compile test reports.
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies.
• Ability to coordinate and balance priorities of multiple projects and deliverables.
• Experience in health digital standards will be an added advantage.
• Experience in technical documentation will be an added advantage.