IT QA Analyst (Bangkok, Thailand)

IT QA Analyst (Bangkok, Thailand)

Our client, an international Insurance and Financial Services firm in Bangkok is seeking a QA Analyst to join their IT team.

Role Purpose

Responsible for assessing the quality of specifications and technical design documents in order to ensure timely, relevant and meaningful testing and feedback. He/She will be involved in planning and implementing strategies for quality management and testing and will also be involved in creating and implementing a strategy for quality coordination and testing, as well as suggesting solutions to identified quality problems.
The Quality Assurance Analyst will be responsible for supporting the planning, design and execution of system/application testing on simple to complex implementations. The QA Analyst will work collaboratively within the IT developers and business units to execute and validate test cases based upon system requirements.
This role will focus on creating quality deliverables by the IT Team. In other words, it is the responsibility of the QA role to make sure that the application development/maintenance process doesn’t sacrifice quality in the name of completed objectives.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases and identify issues
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, analyse and document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing functionalities to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and business managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• 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
• Recommend improvements to enhance the end user experience
• Conduct post-release/post-implementation testing

Qualifications

• Testing Know-how: Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Meticulousness: Detailed in approach and makes sure everything is addressed as it should
  be. Ability to think in the abstract and see how small details fit into the bigger picture.
• Communication: Interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to express ideas
  or facts, orally or in writing, in a clear manner.
• Accuracy: Ability to be very highly accurate with all operational tasks and recording of
  data.
• Innovation: Ability to generate ideas and solutions to problems, including new
  ways of working.
• Information Technology: Experience using testing tools, testing automation software and other testing applications
• Analytics: Ability to observe, understand and interpret situations in order to strategize and report outcomes.