Sr – QA Engineer at Tala

Job Description (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tala (formerly InVenture) builds mobile products that help creditworthy individuals in emerging markets validate their financial identities and get access to fair credit to advance their businesses and families. Tala is providing choice and control to individuals around the world when it comes to their financial identity. What You’ll Do: Work in a hands-on, collaborative environment with top product managers and engineers to build breakthrough experiences and products that solve our users’ most critical needsParticipate in product grooming sessions with product managers and engineers to understand product goals, features, details, etc.Review product specifications (including requirements, flowcharts, designs, etc.) in order to prepare test plans and test scenariosManually execute test plans, scenarios, and cases to ensure the customer experience matches defined product specsFile clear and concise bug tickets to help engineers fix product defects and issuesPlay a critical role in all releases by conducting regression and smoke tests in Staging and Production environmentsVerify critical production issues as neededInvolve in on-call rotations to support the production issuesBe involved in the Scrum process, including stand-ups and related activitiesTest established products as well as new product solutions for new business lines What You Need: 6-7 years of QA methodologies, automated testing tools and test strategiesStrong programming and scripting skillsKnowledge and passion for software QA methodologies & processesExperience as a quality assurance analyst, software tester, or functional tester conducting manual testing of web and mobile productsExperience in writing comprehensive test cases aligned with product requirementsAbility to understand the user’s mindset and how they might use the productStrong communication skills with all audiencesExtreme attention to detailAbility to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse testing activities simultaneouslyExperience with Agile software development methodology using scrum, sprints, and JIRAWorking knowledge of technical concepts including programming, logic, databases, SQL queries, data distributed across multiple systems, etc.Familiarity with third-party API concepts and integration