Understand the requirements from internal and external stakeholders groups and work with the development team to define and improve the build system quality
Review stories or requirement specs to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous and verifiable.
Discuss, analyse and recommend design improvements or corrections to developers throughout the development process
Collaborate closely with stakeholders and project team to identify needs and requirements for estimation of testing scope and time frame
Develop and establish quality assurance deliverables and testing framework, including create and maintain test plans and test cases in accordance with changing requirements, throughout development
Create and manage automated test framework whenever possible, such as prepare test environment, maintain functional testing script in accordance with changing requirements
Conduct system integration tests with external parties, validate the output and expected outcome e.g. data to and from external parties systems and feedback on improvement requirement
Conduct extensive manual functional /exploratory testing, including browser testing
Conduct performance and load tests, validate the output and expected outcomes and feedback on improvement required
Conduct application performance and security testing to ensure we have a robust and secured system in place
Conduct impact analysis of defect fixes discovered during manual or automated tests, validate completed stories pass the acceptance criteria, raising defects as needed and work with development team to improve the expected behaviour and test cases
Demonstrate the tested stories during Sprint Review and prepare production show case to show the completed stories tested
Demonstrate knowledge of automated software testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, test driven development (TDD) and behaviour driven development (BDD)
Demonstrate knowledge of creating packaging / build scripts with MSBuild, Maven, Docker etc
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resource to application stack traces

Software Tester (SG)