Position: Junior Manual QA (Desktop)
Company: Luxoft
Category: QA
Experience required: 1y
English level: intermediate

Project Description:
This is a line of products for field engineers focused on a process of productivity improvement at oil and gas production.

This Product is a scientifically-grounded Desktop application aimed to Design, Optimize and Monitor specific processes in field, simulate or calculate various operations, view and evaluate real-time data acquisition.
Responsibilities:
• Analyze requirements, UI wireframes and Acceptance Criteria in new User Stories, participate in Grooming sessions with Product Owner, identify gaps in requirements or Definition of Ready compliance
• Test new functionality in developed User Stories, work closely with development team at early stages of User Story implementation
• Create and maintain detailed Test Plans / Checklist for new User Stories with specific scenarios, use cases, regression verifications and out of scope verifications
• Create and review test cases with clear test objectives using Action Based Tests, shared steps and data driven flows
• Create, obtain, modify and maintain data required for testing, specially for scientific features testing
• Define, maintain and update test cases for our automation team
• Identify, document, and reproduce defects in software with a profound root cause analysis and risk and impact analysis
• Investigate UAT or Prod Issues and create bug reports
• Contribute to team knowledge base, create and maintain test coverage matrix, features descriptions and Instructions pages in a well-structured and understandable way
• Participate in regression testing and verification/validation activities
• Follow and contribute to Agile/SCRUM activities (e.g. daily stand-ups, retrospectives, iteration planning, estimating/reporting, acceptance criteria definition, etc.).
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Minimum 1 year of experience in Manual Testing.
• Understanding of the specifics of Desktop applications testing.
• Experience working with Databases and SQL
• Test Design techniques usage to maintain good test coverage.
• Ad hoc and exploratory testing.
• Ability to demonstrate implemented User Stories to stakeholders
• Investigating the root cause of the bug, isolating or generalizing the steps
• At least theoretical knowledge about installation testing
• Understanding Client-Server architecture
• Upper Intermediate or higher English to be able to frequently and effectively communicate with the customer and stakeholders
• Good knowledge of requirement analysis techniques.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely