Senior QA Engineer

Role purpose :

Are you ready to take your QA career to the next level? At Prevalent, we're on a mission to build top-tier, scalable, and secure solutions, and we need a passionate Senior QA Engineer like you to help us shape the future of quality assurance! If you're eager to lead the charge in crafting innovative automated testing strategies, working closely with talented developers, and mentoring the next generation of QA engineers, this is your chance to make an impact.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering high-quality products while driving continuous improvement across our QA practices. You’ll work in a fast-paced environment, tackling complex problems head-on and ensuring our products meet the highest standards for functionality, security, and performance. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to guide and inspire junior engineers, helping them grow as part of a supportive and collaborative team.

Key accountabilities:

• Create test designs, cases, processes, and test data to ensure scalability without compromising
  performance using smart test data
• Execute automated regression tests after each release to speed up Big Data validation
• Collaborate on business requirements, providing test scripts and scenarios to ensure developers understand them
• Design and write test automation scripts using frameworks
• Execute test cases, report defects, and define severity and priority
• Follow defined standards and procedures for all test-related work
• Document bugs for development teams to easily reproduce issues
• Participate in testing procedure walk-throughs and prepare reports
• Contribute to predictable, quality release delivery
• Maintain detailed documentation of test cases and results
• Proactively identify and solve issues, proposing innovative solutions
Work within agile teams to ensure quality is prioritised

Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in QA and testing across the full SDLC, including API Testing, QA automation and tooling
• Ability to interpret requirements and technical specs to create valuable test cases
• Familiarity using Docker, Kubernetes, and continuous delivery/release pipelines
• Relevant experience in Testing enterprise applications on AWS and Azure cloud environments
• Considerable Experience in coding using Java, Scala, Python, and other languages
• Familiarity with Hadoop, NoSQL, MySQL, and Elasticsearch
• Strong analytical, development, and testing skills, including translating requirements into test scenarios
• Attention to detail in spotting patterns and irregularities
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Experience with full project lifecycle from concept to result
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and client-facing skills
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and development processes
• Proficient in GIT and automated QA processes in agile environments
• Experience in test automation and DevOps tooling
• Practical knowledge of Big Data technologies like Spark and Hadoop