QA Tester

Summary

Provide end-to-end Quality Assurance support to ensure high-quality technology solutions, validating systems against business requirements, regulatory standards, and operational expectations prior to deployment, with emphasis on functional, regression, and integration testing.

Core responsibilities

• Review project documentation and requirements; raise clarifications, questions, and issues.
• Define and document test scope/approach artifacts as required (e.g., test plans, entry/exit criteria, test reports).
• Create high-level test scenarios and detailed manual test cases; participate in peer reviews and incorporate feedback.
• Maintain requirements traceability by linking test cases to requirements and test evidence in the agreed tooling.
• Prepare and/or validate test data needed to execute assigned scenarios.
• Execute functional, regression, and integration test cases; capture evidence and results.
• Log, link, and track defects through to closure; support defect triage and provide timely retest/verification of fixes.
• Escalate critical issues promptly and support UAT by retesting defect fixes as changes progress through environments.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, developers, business analysts, and project managers; attend stand-ups, triage calls, and retrospectives.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a large-scale software development environment.
• Proven track record working in Agile Scrum teams.
• Familiarity with SDLC, Agile methodologies, and iterative development best practices.
• Passion for QA and a commitment to quality in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical, strategic, and innovative thinking.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and directions.
• Ability to multitask, take initiative, and meet tight deadlines.
• Skilled in troubleshooting and issue analysis, with a focus on suggesting improvements and workarounds.
• Strategic and innovative mindset to help transform QA teams.
• Ability to provide detailed reporting to senior management on implementation progress.
• Experience in designing and developing test cases based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Solid understanding of Trade Finance products and processes, including Letters of Credit, Guarantees, and Collections.
• Familiarity with financial systems and workflows, ideally within banking or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams across different countries and time zones.

Required skills & tools (from in-scope activities)

• Test management/defect tracking: JIRA (including linking requirements ↔ test cases ↔ defects); familiarity with X-Ray is beneficial.
• Documentation & collaboration: Ability to work with shared documentation repositories and team knowledge bases (e.g., SharePoint and Confluence).
• Testing capability: Strong manual testing foundation across functional, regression, and integration testing; comfortable working across multiple applications/platforms.
• Defect management: Clear defect write-ups, traceability, and disciplined follow-through through triage, retest, and closure.
• Data skills: Able to set up and manage test data; for complex testing, able to support SQL query design and transformation logic validation as required.
• Automation exposure: Willingness to request access to the chosen automation tool and execute assigned automation scripts if required (tool to be specified).
• Communication: Communicate progress, risks, and issues to stakeholders; produce clear written status updates and metrics.
• Experience : Past experience with Eximbills Enterprise is a plus