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Software Quality Assurance

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Software quality assurance
provides subject matter expertise to application verticals regarding QA process, QA tools and artefacts, including their test plans/strategies.

Software Quality Assurance

Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Oversee the management of quality consistency across all online applications and web interfaces, utilizing various testing toolkits and internal documentation

Manage and lead a team of Software Quality Engineers

Manage the software corrective action process, perform root cause investigations, develop CAPA plans and lead software related CAPA’s

Manage software process improvement initiatives

Organize and deliver training in System procedures for required personnel

Lead and participate in risk management activities e.g FMEA’s

Participate in the site internal audit programme

Provision of support and assistance in execution and control of Computerised System Validation programs

Review of pre-delivery or vendor supplied information in regards to suitability to proceed with validation activities

Development of protocols, test scripts and associated support documentation

Software Quality Assurance

Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for

Software Quality Assurance

List any licenses or certifications required by the position:
ISTQB, ASQ, QA, CSQE, 9001, ISO, II, IAT, ASPICE, SCJP

Education for

Software Quality Assurance

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the software quality assurance job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as

Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business, Science

Skills for

Software Quality Assurance

Desired skills for
software quality assurance
include:

Python

Industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test harnesses

QA methodology and tools

Testing

Software QA methodologies

SQL

Code reviews

Build processes

Source control management

Test methodologies

Desired experience for
software quality assurance
includes:

Perform the execution of software related protocols

At least 3 years’ experience in a GMP/GAMP regulated environment

A degree in a science, engineering or computing discipline

Ability to evaluate and assess information to determine appropriate risk and required actions is critical

Ability to identify improvement needs

Demonstrated leadership experience and/ or aptitude in relevant areas such as forecasting effort, resource needs, scheduling effort and resources, reporting status and adjusting schedules

Software Quality Assurance

Examples

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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of software quality assurance. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities for software quality assurance

Leads key technical testing areas that require expertise beyond functional software testers
Helps with software testing as needed (infrequent)
Analyzes and optimizes the quality assurance testing tools and processes through continuous improvement
Reviewing feature stories/requirements for creating and executing test cases
Identifying, recording and tracking defects in defect management tool (HP Quality Center / Rally)
Supporting Quality improvement initiatives
Identifying, recommending, and participating in quality improvement initiatives
Define test plans and test cases for custom telecommunications and data communications software products involving both back-end processing systems and front-end Web-based GUIs
Collaborating with Automation team in designing, developing and executing tests for evaluating APIs (this will require some automation understanding)
Ability to execute BOTH manual and automated tests

Qualifications for software quality assurance

2+ years experience as QA engineer
Great team skills, ability to work with customers and teammates
First degree of computer science (advantage) or Experience in IDF technological units (advantage)
5+ years of Quality Assurance / Test experience, 1+ years of which were spent as test lead
An understanding of software and the SDLC
Experience with process implementation is highly desirable

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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of software quality assurance. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.

Responsibilities for software quality assurance

Developing test strategies and creating appropriate test harnesses pragmatic testing approaches
Key player to build up test automation framework in regulated medical device industry
Review requirements, industry standards and manuals
Verify compliance to telecom standards (ITU, MEF, IETF, IEEE, TNF)
Verify the graphical user interface
Work with protocols such as Ethernet, OTN
Based on background, interest and needs other work tasks can come into consideration as develop new software
Define test methods and create test plans for new or updated software projects to determine if software performs in accurate and reliable way according to documented requirements established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions
Comfortable performing manual test cases and executing automated test scripts
Familiarity with automated test tools (such as Selenium, Protractor, UFT)

Qualifications for software quality assurance

Bachelor’s degree in Computer related field preferred with 3-5 years experience and/or equivalent work experience
Master’s* degree (or foreign equivalent) in Management Information Systems, Computer
Be excited about automation and building tools to help do your job and and help the rest of the team
1+ year of experience in programming languages C and C ++, and in code review (C, C ++), and in project management
3+ years of industry experience in software development or test
Experience in test automation related to GSM/UMTS cellular products

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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a software quality assurance. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities for software quality assurance

Codes using industry best practices
Promptly and professionally responds to bug reports
Troubleshoots problems, analyze and isolate issues
Provides technical guidance to software testers to help them embrace change as new test automation tools are introduced
Attends and gives status on test automation development to internal users of the team’s developing tools
Supports QA with product rollouts
Responsible for assuring that output from the software development process includes adequate identification and interpretation of product requirements, such as a) traceability requirements, b) test requirements, c) usability
Maintains performance standards while working remotely by ensuring availability during standard business hours
Guide design team in conformance to the international standard applicable to the SW Development process
Serve as lead and coach in the implementation of design control and SW risk management requirements per above standards

Qualifications for software quality assurance

Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium
You are autonomous, rigorous, curious and pragmatic
Establish test strategy
Define tests objectives
Define Acceptance criteria towards suppliers and business
Organize versions and configuration management

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Our growing company is hiring for a software quality assurance. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.

Responsibilities for software quality assurance

Familiarity with Jenkins / Chef
Practical team experience in an Agile environment
Maintain and implement MSC-PRO-309
Update MSC-PRO 309 on an annual basis, unless deferred by the BTR
Maintain the other related Software Quality Assurance procedures and documentation
Provide assistance to projects to assure their application development activities and documentation aligns with the MSC-PRO-309
Lead the Software Grading Checklist review board
Provide SQA training as necessary and requested
Develop SQA training material as necessary and requested
Track Software Owner training and initiate annual software reviews

Qualifications for software quality assurance

8+ years of experience in engineering role
Familiarity and exposure to SW-CMM/CMMI strongly desired
Foundations in project management, PMP certification ideal, but not required
Experience programming in a high level language such as Basic or C
Complex log file analysis with usage of grep, awk, sed
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle

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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of software quality assurance. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.

Responsibilities for software quality assurance

Support SQA audits and assessments by third-party organizations
Develop and support SQA metrics
Maintain content and assure accuracy of SQA websites and links
Working with business owner(s) to develop and implement related test plans/cases
Quarterly review of Hanford Information Systems Inventory (HISI)
Review of documents
Identify missing elements
Identify missing links
Review of “safety documentation”
Coordinate and communicate with MSA Quality Assurance to assure that SQA aligns with the MSA QA program

Qualifications for software quality assurance

Knowledge of web performance testing tools
Experience with testing and automating REST APIs Strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) concepts and practices to continually assess the risks and quality of products and releases
Ability to work with customers and teammates
Master’s degree or equivalent education
Experience from and a will to work with automated testing
A will to develop and introduce new testing methods