Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Description

Key accountabilities/Deliverables/Outcomes

Requirements Analysis and Quality Reviews

• Review business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and technical designs.
  
• Participate in requirement gathering and solution design sessions.
  
• Identify ambiguities, gaps, inconsistencies, and risks in requirements.
  
• Ensure requirements are testable and measurable.
  
• Provide quality-focused recommendations during product development.
  

Test Planning and Preparation

• Develop test plans aligned to project objectives.
  
• Design detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts.
  
• Prepare test data and establish test environments.
  
• Define entry and exit criteria for testing phases.
  

Test Execution

• Execute planned testing activities.
  
• Functional Testing
  
• System Testing
  
• Integration Testing
  
• Regression Testing
  
• End-to-End Testing
  
• User Acceptance Testing support
  
• Sanity and Smoke Testing
  
• Validate business and technical requirements.
  
• Verify product behaviour against expected outcomes.
  

Defect Management

• Identify and document defects accurately.
  
• Prioritize defects according to business impact.
  
• Liaise with development teams regarding defect resolution.
  
• Verify defect fixes.
  
• Conduct regression testing after fixes.
  

Quality Assurance Governance

• Ensure compliance with testing standards and methodologies.
  
• Support quality audits and reviews.
  
• Participate in release-governance processes.
  
• Ensure products meet regulatory and operational requirements.
  
• Promote adherence to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes
  

Automation Testing Support

• Support development and maintenance of automated test scripts.
  
• Execute automation test suites.
  
• Analyze automation results.
  
• Recommend automation opportunities.
  
• Contribute to continuous testing initiatives.
  

Reporting and Stakeholder Communication

• Provide regular test progress updates.
  
• Report quality risks and issues.
  
• Present testing metrics and findings.
  
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and project meetings.
  
• Support go-live assessments and release decisions.
  

Role/person specification

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field.
  

Experience

• 2–5 years of experience in Software Testing or Quality Assurance.
  
• Experience testing web-based applications.
  
• Experience with mobile application testing.
  
• Experience working within Agile environments.
  
• Experience in Banking, Fintech, Telecommunications, Insurance, or Digital Products.
  
• Experience with test automation tools.
  
• Experience with API and integration testing.
  
• Experience with cloud-based applications.