Senior QA Tester

Our Purpose
Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.
The Smartly team is committed to delivering top quality, world-class solutions for NZ small businesses, and are looking for smart, forward-thinking individuals to join us
About the role
This is an excellent opportunity to be part of the Smartly product development team here at Datacom as a senior QA Tester.
We place our trust in you to be able to plan, implement, execute, and report the outcome of your testing, be creative in your approaches and be able to work in environments with a range of deliverables across web and mobile platforms.
This role can be worked from any Datacom office in NZ.

**Responsibilities**:

- Perform functional testing based on business requirements and acceptance criteria, across a range of areas - Front end/UI, database, API, regression & smoke testing
- Develop & execute comprehensive test plans against developed features and components. Identify and report defects, work with the team to resolve
- Ensure test environments are an accurate representation of the client environment. Use test data and environments in strict accordance with all internal and customer security and auditing standards
- Be part of the solution - actively contribute to team discussions, raise ambiguities, provide ideas, share knowledge. Give expert input to the planning and design of complex functionality
- Take responsibility for estimating, planning, and progress reporting on your own and others tasks, ensure testing deadlines will be met, call out risks and uncertainties
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of customer functionality, test standards and procedures to an exceptional standard. Keep training and onboarding documentation updated
- Acquire and analyse relevant documents for assigned projects to determine testing requirements. Contribute to high level planning and analysis.
- Liaise with Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and other associated roles to work towards agreed outcomes, providing testing method and QA guidance
- Generate and deliver high value test reporting documentation to provide the business with quality metrics
- Lead scrum test teams by example - encourage collaboration, contribution and commitment to the teams shared goals
- Guide and mentor junior team members as work is planned and delivered

What you'll bring
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
- A strong background in software testing with 5+ years’ experience in a testing role
- Proven experience using SQL Server Management Studio for analysis and testing
- Proven experience using SDLC and testing tools such as Azure DevOps, Postman/Swagger (API), cross-browser testing tools
- Proven knowledge across unit, functional, system, integration, performance, and end-to-end testing
- Advanced knowledge of Quality Assurance best practices, latest methodologies and tools
- Ability to contribute to developing the software testing skills and knowledge within the wider team
- Experience leading and mentoring junior team members
- Ability to organise, plan and deliver your assignments in a professional manner with mínimal supervision
- A passion for learning and continuous self-improvement, and sharing knowledge and experience with others

Why Datacom?

**Benefits**:
Employee's at Datacom have access to a range of benefits including;
**Datacare**: Our Employee Assistance Program Program enables our people and their immediate family to access confidential coaching and support services with qualified professionals.

**Health & Lifestyle**: Everything from discounted gym memberships to flu shots, health assessments and discounted insurances.

**Finance & Super**: These benefits include banking offers, superannuation packages, and financial support schemes.

**Discounts galore**: Employees have access to a range from special offers and discounts from Car purchasing and travel to Tech equipment.
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