Software Tester at RS-Hunter Limited

At RS Hunter we believe our clients have the resources, what we do is to galvanize, advice and, partner with our clients to understand the peculiarities of their businesses and then find the best solutions and best HR strategies that work.

Our starting objective is to focus on small business and while providing support to larger organisations in the areas of recruitment and executive selection.

RS Hunter is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Software Tester

Location: Lagos

Role Purpose

• To carry out all testing activities related to products and projects ensuring deliverables are released to specification and the highest quality
• To be responsible for carrying out regression tests
• To raise and prioritize bugs and retest bug fixes
• To become a user expert on how our products work, gaining an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses; and championing customer issues in order to ensure they have a positive experience
• To help develop the QA team by continually improving processes
• Key Responsibilities and Activities:
• To carry out all testing activities related to products and projects ensuring deliverables are released to specification and the highest quality.

Responsibilities
The Software Tester will be responsible for carrying out testing on various Relay products and projects. This involves responsibility for the following activities:

Creation of test plans:

• Identify/define how testing for a project will be carried out
• Define what exactly will be tested and how
• Preparation and documenting any set up work needed for specific tests, i.e. Data preparation for specific scenario tests

Carrying out testing:

• Execute tests as documented in the test plan
• Log bugs and work with developers in resolving them
• Retesting and closing bugs when they have been resolved
• Keeping clear records of all bugs identified, producing progress reports on a regular basis

To be responsible for carrying out regression tests
The Software Tester will be responsible for carrying out regression testing activities.

This will involve the following:

Ensure all regression scripts are kept up to date in accordance with specified functionality:

• Update all regression documents when new functionality is released

Execute regression test scripts as part of the overall build process:

• Identify/ log all bugs
• Work with developers on bug resolution
• Produce progress reports on a regular basis
• To become a user expert on how our products work, gaining an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses; and championing customer issues in order to ensure they have a positive experience.

The Software Tester should be an expert on how our products are used by our customers. They should aim to get a good understanding of:

• The strengths and weaknesses of each product / service.
• How our customers really use each product/ service.
• The overall aim is to ensure the Software Tester always seeks to improve customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention through providing an excellent user experience.
• To help develop the QA team by continually improving processes.

The Software Tester will be expected to champion ways to improve our current processes on an ongoing basis. This will involve the following:

• Reviewing QA procedures.
• Sharing ideas with the QA team.
• Taking ownership of QA improvements.
• The overall aim is to ensure the Software Tester contributes to the positive growth and development of the QA Team.

Key Working Relationships

• QA team, specifically QA Team Leaders and Software Testers
• Development teams, specifically Project Managers, Software Developers, Database Developers and Business Analysts

Skills
The candidate must have the following:

• Characteristics &Behaviors.
• Team player mindset, committed to overall company results.
• Exhibits high level of enthusiasm and expressiveness.
• Displays passion for quality and champions quality of the user experience.
• Build and maintain rapport with a number of different teams and adapts communication style accordingly.
• Eager to take personal responsibility for the quality of our products and to ensure all product releases are thoroughly tested, robust and conform to specification.
• Willingness to develop and take on challenges.
• Displays commitment by adopting an ‘extra mile’ attitude.
• Tenacity.
• Aptitude.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to follow issues through to resolution.
• Can manage and prioritize tasks with a sense of urgency.
• Able to reinforce thoughts and ideas of others and challenge assumptions.
• Able to think creatively and propose options/solutions to challenges.

Application Closing Date
4th March, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resumes to: [email protected]