Software Testing Specialist at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company

Reporting To: IT Enterprise Applications Lead

Role Purpose

• This role is responsible for assessing the software quality of IE through manual and automated testing;
• Finding and reporting bugs / glitches while ensuring that IE products, applications, and systems work correctly;
• Designs and implement tests, debug, and define corrective actions, review system requirements, and tracks quality assurance metrics (e.g., defect densities and open defect counts.)

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Conduct tests before product launch to ensure software runs smoothly and meets business users' needs while being cost-effective
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Monitor department’s performance through Key Performance Measures.
• Ensure provision of adequate resources for various activities of the department.
• Comply with Quality Management System / Occupational Health & Safety requirements, including objectives and applicable regulations relating to assigned jobs.
• Assist in carrying out any other duties as requested by the Head of Department.

Minimum Qualifications

• First Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Technology.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics or a closely related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance for highly complex projects related to distributed platform.
• Proven experience with black box and white box testing techniques and tools.
• Experience in automating RESTful and Web Services, Microservices and data processes (extracting/loading).
• Experience with Selenium, Selenium Grid, Protractor, Visual Studio or Parasoft SOATest.
• Experience with a SQL or NoSQL database like Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, transfer, or data delivery technologies.

Technical Competencies:

• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to research & solve complex issues independently.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Communication and Interpersonal Relations.
• Strong collaborator.
• Managing Resources.
• Management and leadership skills.
• Business Focus.