Overview
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
Job Position: Software QA Specialist
Job Location: Abuja
Job Description
- Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance.
- By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
- Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.
Job Responsibilities
- Developing and spearheading compliance to software quality guidelines and standards.
- Automating end-to-end test scenarios for applications.
- Meeting with software development teams to discuss software specifications and controls.
- Designing manual and automated test procedures to evaluate each software product.
- Building, coding and implementing software evaluation test programs.
- Conducting software audits and providing feedback and recommendations for improvement to meet technical standards.
- Automating code testing procedures.
- Running test programs to ensure that testing protocols evaluate the software correctly.
- Tweaking the software testing systems for maximum performance.
- Finalizing and documenting testing procedures.
- Supporting technical documentation of software products as part of quality assurance before release.
- Completing final tests and creating test reports.
- Suggest software fixes.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar field.
- Minimum of 2 years of proven work experience as a software test engineer.
- In-depth knowledge of program testing software e.g., selenium/cypress.
- Advanced knowledge of debugging codes and software development languages e.g., Java.
- Advanced knowledge of software design and engineering.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
- Experience working with popular operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
- Ability to design and write complex software testing procedures.
- Ability to collate data and compile test reports.
- Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies.
- Ability to coordinate and balance priorities of multiple projects and deliverables.
- Experience in health digital standards will be an added advantage.
- Experience in technical documentation will be an added advantage.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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