IT Quality Assurance Tester at Credit Direct Limited

Credit Direct Limited a leading innovation-driven financial services company based in Lagos, Nigeria with branches spread across the country. We pioneered the unsecured micro-lending space in Nigeria and are positioned to be the dominant market leader in the Country and beyond. Our services are hinged on a partnership with employers and our customers to provide friendly innovative loan and investment products while our various repayment options give our customers the freedom, flexibility, and confidence to enjoy their lives. Our services are trusted by over 300,000 active customers, the largest endorsement in the Nigerian public and private sectors; and this has inspired us to remain the leader in Nigeria's micro-lending space.

JOB SUMMARY

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of software products by testing them for functionality, reliability, and performance.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Significantly contribute to quality testing, maintenance, and deliverables associated with the organization’s information technology initiative.
• Contribute to the quality assurance process for software development projects.
• Support continuous quality improvement to ensure the delivery of the best possible IT products and services.
• Validate systems, products or services against user experience goals, metrics and targets.
• Collaborate with developers, project managers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the software/product quality meets requirements and specifications.
• Identify and track quality assurance metrics, such as defects and test coverage.

JOB EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience as a QA engineer.
• Possess adequate knowledge and experience with information technology testing applications.
• Practical experience analyzing data and translating the outcome to actions.
• Good understanding of software development processes and testing methodologies.

Experience:

• Support complex, multi-disciplinary quality assurance technical projects using engineering expertise.
• Performing deep dive technical solution analysis and design aligning to the overall quality assurance engineering strategy.
• Collaborate with other functional teams on aspects of the feature or sub-system.
• Work with the team to develop and refine test cases for new products/features to ensure adequate test coverage.
• Adequate understanding of all QA cycle, such test plan creation, test case creation and execution and reporting are a must.
• Understanding of software testing lifecycles, in either agile or Waterfall environments.
• Detailed understanding of all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including Agile and Waterfall is required.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Competencies:

• Adequate knowledge and understanding of automated testing.
• Adequate knowledge of Load and Performance testing tools: (JMeter, Cypress, Soasta cloud test)
• Basic application and usage of API testing tools: (Post man, swagger, soapui, Apiary)
• Adequate application and usage of Unit testing tools: (Junit,NUnit, PHPUnit, SonarQube, Code coverage).
• Adequate application and usage of Test Management tools: (Mantis bug tracker, TestCollab, IBM Rational Quality manager, Jira).
• Adequate application and usage of Functional testing tools: (Selenium, Cucumber).
• Adequate application and usage of Multi-device testing tools: (DeviceAnywhere, Amazon device farm, Device emulators).

Person Specification:

• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with testing tools and techniques, and be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Possess keen analytical and problem solving skills.
• Show critical thinking with great attention to details.
• Good understanding of software development processes and methodologies.

Method of Application