QA and UAT Tester
Affidea BV
WorldwideremotePosted 8 days ago
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Key highlights
- Candidate must have 1‑3 years of manual and/or UAT testing experience.
- The role offers structured training and mentorship for skill development.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
- Basic SQL skills are needed for data validation and test‑data setup.
- The position includes a clear path to a Test Automation Engineer profile.
Role overview
The QA and UAT Tester ensures software releases meet functional, quality, and business acceptance requirements before reaching production through rigorous manual and UAT testing. This defined growth role provides structured training and mentorship, guiding candidates toward a Test Automation Engineer profile while developing test automation skills.
Responsibilities
- Writes clear, traceable test cases and scripts from requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Maintains an organized, up-to-date test case repository aligned to current functionality.
- Ensures test coverage maps back to requirements and identifies gaps before test execution begins.
- Participates in requirement/acceptance-criteria reviews to raise testability concerns early.
- Executes functional, regression, and end-to-end test cycles according to the test plan.
- Plans and coordinates UAT cycles with business stakeholders, including scheduling, scripts, and sign-off.
- Documents test results, evidence, and outcomes clearly for audit and traceability.
- Flags scope, environment, or data issues that put a test cycle at risk.
- Logs defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and priority.
- Tracks defects through to resolution and retests fixes before closure.
- Maintains accurate defect status and communicates blockers or high-risk defects promptly.
- Analyses defect trends to identify recurring problem areas.
- Contributes to and upholds the team's Definition of Done and quality gate criteria.
- Provides a clear go/no-go quality recommendation ahead of each release.
- Escalates quality risks early rather than allowing them to surface at release time.
- Maintains release-level test summary documentation for audit and stakeholder visibility.
- Actively develops automation skills through training, mentorship, and hands-on practice as part of an agreed development plan.
- Contributes to and maintains automated test scripts for repetitive regression scenarios, with support from senior team members.
- Progressively takes on greater ownership of automation as competence grows, moving from assisted to independent contribution.
- Shares learnings and automation progress with the wider QA and development team.
- Works closely with developers, Business Analysts, and the Product Owner to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Participates in sprint planning, refinement, and review to provide a quality perspective early ("shift-left" testing).
- Pairs with developers to understand root causes of defects and prevent recurrence.
- Provides constructive, timely feedback on testability and edge cases during design and development.
- Identifies and proposes improvements to test processes, templates, and tooling.
- Maintains clear, current test documentation and a shared testing knowledge base.
- Actively participates in retrospectives and follows through on agreed improvement actions.
- Stays current with testing best practices and emerging automation tools/techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 1–3 years’ experience in manual and/or User Acceptance Testing (UAT) within a software development environment
- Experience writing clear, traceable test cases and test scripts from requirements and acceptance criteria
- Experience executing functional, regression, and UAT test cycles and documenting results
- Experience logging, tracking, and retesting defects using a defect-tracking tool (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, Xray)
- Working understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum ways of working
- Basic SQL skills for data validation and test-data setup
Nice to have
- ISTQB Foundation Certification (or equivalent testing certification)
Additional details
- Defined growth role with a clear path toward a Test Automation Engineer profile as capability develops
- Structured training and mentorship provided to support skill-building and progression