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Strategy & Planning

• Enforces quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.

• Ensures that software quality measures comply with regulatory standards, industry standards, and accepted best practices.

• Performs the pre-testing phase of application development by preparing proposals in order to identify potential problem areas, and make the appropriate recommendations.

Operations (Quality Assurance)

• Develop, maintain and execute test plans and detailed test cases manual or automated scripts.

• Performs the testing of developed solutions to ensure they are in line with functional specifications before being deployed for customers.

• Performs research, industry analysis and reports findings to the Manager, Quality Assurance, Security and Compliance

• Tracks systems development projects in line with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Identifies, reports, guides and tracks the rectification of faults in products during development stage.

• Performs tests on computer software programs to make sure the programs perform properly and are easy to use.

• Determines weaknesses in the computer codes.

• Ensures that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.

• Ensures proper technical documentation of all product and project activities.

• Reviews new or modified programs, including documentation, diagram, and flow charts, to determine if the programs will perform according to user requests and conform to guidelines.

• Ensures that regression tests are done for any existing products that have been enhanced to discover any bugs.

• Makes recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers.

• Oversees manual testing in situations where automated tests cannot be achieved.

• Communicates application issues to the concerned development team for timely resolution.

• Ensures PCIDSS standards are met through close monitoring of outputs.

• Aids in creation of methodologies and processes for the collection and analysis of data for ensuring software, systems, and product quality.

Operations (Systems Analysis)

• Analyses formal test results to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.

• Conducts research on hardware and software products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.

• Makes recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers / engineers.

• Communicates test progress, test results, and other relevant information to relevant project stakeholders.

• Participates in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth end-user reviews for modified and new systems or applications.