- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes, and is accountable for own and team commitments.

- Works independently within the plan dictated by the manager, with some guidance on most complex situations. Specific Accountabilities:

Test strategy
* Attend to specification/architecture reviews (also on customer specification reviews when applicable), and provide feedback along with any potential impact, risk, issue, or missed gap based on experience
* Define test strategy and test plan containing test cases (functional and non-functional), ensure traceability with specifications and customer requirements
* Ensure compliance of test strategy with CI/CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), and QA best practices/standards from the industry (ISTQB..) Test Expertise
* Design test cases and write test case scripts
* Prepare test environment, test data, and execute test cases
* Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria
* Continuously assess the need to add/update/remove test cases to existing regression and CI/CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (stabilization, deletion of flaky tests...)
* As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordingly Test automation
* Assess the necessity to automate a subset of (or all) test scripts
* Use test automation framework and contribute to its improvement Defect management
* Open defects for software or documentation, assign a relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, and provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defects
* Check defect fix, and give go/no-go for the load of production defects Reporting
* Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers, and product definition analysts
* Provide visibility on testing campaigns/milestones to all stakeholders Support
* Provide mentoring and adapted support to newcomers
* Provide adapted support to QAE peers based on experience Knowledge sharing
* Share knowledge on a specific topic (technical/functional) and spread it among the QA community as well as other stakeholders Quality assurance ambassador
* Show accountability for the project, product, or release quality control
* Propagate quality assurance best practices based on the highest standards in relevant teams and quality communities Technicity
* Efficiently use QA tooling stack and frameworks
* Be a force of proposition for improvement of existing ones or development of new ones
* Be proactive about any issue/change that is likely to affect QA peers daily job Continuous and sustainable improvement
* Be a driving force behind proposals to improve current quality processes in a constantly evolving development lifecycle framework (SAFE)
* Act as a pioneer and be part of implementation teams/workshops/taskforces for the newest used tools/frameworks/technologies
* Participate in the understanding, measurement, and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities

Education

bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline

Relevant work experience

6+ years of experience in data analysis focused on quality assurance or similar positions.

Technical Skills

To be successful in this role, you must have strong hands-on experience in data-driven testing and validation.

Together with this, you should have: