Software Quality Assurance Specialist - UNRWA
- Posting Title: Consultant – Software Quality Assurance Specialist, (Local) ; (HQ Gaza);
- Department/Office: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
- Duty Station: HQ Gaza
- Posting Period: 03 November 2022 - 16 November 2022
- Job Opening Number: 22-UNRWA - Information Management - Headquarters Gaza-194557-Consultant
- Staffing Exercise N/A
Duties and Responsibilities
- Works as an integral member of an Agile/DevOps cross-functional team to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle;
- Reviews and analyzes system specifications to identify testing requirements;
- Prepares test plan that covers functional, and non-functional requirements;
- Designs and create manual and automated test scripts for mobile and web applications;
- Executes test scripts (manual and automated) and review results;
- Evaluates product code according to specifications, standards and applicable norms;
- Reports defects, bugs and errors to development teams in a precise and concise way;
- Reports and documents tests results for each software version;
- Conducts post-release/post-implementation testing;
- Continuously improves testing processes and strategies to increase automation and code coverage;
- Writes weekly status report for management team.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Education
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited educational institution in information technology, information management, Information systems, computer science, computer engineering, Software engineering, or other related disciplines;
Work Experience
- A minimum of 2 years relevant experience in IT and software development.
- DevOps mindset and good understanding of continuous integration principles, including unit testing, automated deployment, real-time testing and diagnostics;
- Expertise in automating test cases with latest tools and frameworks (Selenium, JMeter, Katalon Studio, etc);
- Understanding of design patterns, UML;
- Solid understanding of system security and data protection best practices;
Contract Conditions.
- The duration of the consultancy is 6 to 11 months, extendable according to performance and availability of funds.
- Remuneration for this consultancy will be on grade 12 (1,259.40 USD) and will depend on the qualifications and experience of the candidate.
- The incumbent will be only in Gaza.
- A minimum of 2 years relevant experience in IT and software development.
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