Overview
This role ensures the quality and reliability of UNOPS IT applications, focusing on financial management systems, through comprehensive testing strategies. It involves collaboration with development teams and stakeholders to identify and resolve defects and improve testing processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with Product Managers and Solutions Designers to understand requirements for test case creation.
- Write and execute test cases for given requirements/user stories.
- Perform end-user testing based upon provided requirement specifications/user stories.
- Review and analyse user stories/use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.
- Provide continuous feedback to development team members, business analysts, product owners, and end users.
- Identify and communicate test schedule or testing-related risks.
- Test software using appropriate techniques and support data quality verification.
- Adopt AI-powered solutions to assist in creating test plans, scenarios, and documentation.
- Liaise with development team members to identify and reproduce bugs and errors.
- Execute all levels of software testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
- Work together with development team members and business analysts to understand project scope and provide objective feedback.
- Act as a backup tester for other functional areas.
- Support the implementation of automated software testing.
- Propose solutions for increasing testing efficiency and simplifying root cause analysis.
- Test design and execution tools that adapt to increasing complexity.
- Proactively identify risks and possible improvements for software testing processes and procedures.
- Stay updated with guidelines, policy, and documentation for testing processes and best practices.
- Contribute to knowledge-sharing activities from the QA team.
- Support effective collaboration between ITG internal teams through proactive communication.
- Assist in the development of documented, standard processes for QA.
Required Experience
- Minimum 6 years of experience in the software industry, working with software and web-based testing, with secondary education.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the software industry, working with software and web-based testing, with a Bachelor's/University Degree.
- An understanding of different types of tests and approaches to testing.
- Knowledge of test automation and SQL.
- Experience in writing high-quality test cases, performing end-user testing, documenting and communicating test results.
- Experience with, or a strong interest in, using Generative AI (like Claude, Gemini or Copilot) to assist in test case generation and execution.
Qualifications
- Secondary school (or equivalent) with 6 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent), preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology, with 2 years of relevant experience.
- QA Testing Certification required.
