Join the Team Making Possibilities Happen
If you’ve ever used an ATM, paid a bill through your phone, sent money to a friend or shopped online, chances are your transaction was safeguarded and processed using our software. Now it’s your turn to serve the payment needs of organizations and people the world over.
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in Limerick, Ireland, you will join a diverse, passionate team, dedicated to making possibilities happen in the payments industry!
The purpose of this role is:
Assist in requirement design and validation. Validate software products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply and maintain quality standards for company products. Develops and executes software test plans. Analyzes and writes test standards and procedures. Maintains documentation of test results to assist in validation and modification of software. Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action. Ability to lead automation efforts and ability to make automation framework decisions. Executes and provides feedback to engineers, architects, and product management on performance, load and stress tests that determine platform and application capabilities of the end-to-end system. Interacts with Vendors, Customers, and internal Sales and Support organization
A typical day at ACI for a Senior QA Engineer is:
1. Involved in the design of product and project requirements. Identify test approaches, coverage, requirement gaps and risks. Ensures quality measures are included in the initial project design.
2. Writes detailed test strategies and plans, making full use of different test estimation techniques in assessing best balance of coverage and efficiency for a project. Contributes directly to project estimation efforts.
3. Writes detailed test scripts to test the functionality of the proposed system. Performs risk analysis on the various components of the system to determine how to use testing resources most effectively.
4. Ensures requirements traceability in the team and identifies areas for improvement.
5. Preparation and management of complex test environments and test data conditions.
6. Focuses on solution oriented approach and identifies complete end to end testing needs involving multiple parts of a product and system.
7. Manages the validation test phase including executing scripts, monitoring testers, logging and tracking problems found, and regression testing any changes made to the system.
8. Able to design and manage automated test approach for projects and ensure that manual tests are automated using suitable tools and framework for the product.
9. Reviews and approves the Integration Test Plan and Procedures produced by the product Quality Solution Expert/QE Lead. Validates the completion of Integrated Testing. Consults with development engineers in resolution of problems and suggest functional solutions.
10. Develops technical training for ACI staff and customers.
11. Develops, executes and analyzes the output from scripts that capture application and platform quality metrics.
12. Provides Performance and Architecture support and guidance to product teams.
13. Provides the Sales organization sizing support for potential customers requesting ACI products on ACI supported hardware platforms.
14. Troubleshoots errors found in the test environment with minimal help from Development teams.
15. Configures complex software solutions by following user guides and manuals instead of waiting to get helped by experts.
16. Analyzes defects functionally and technically before assigning them to Development teams
17. Supports project managers and other stakeholders to complete projects within schedule, without compromising quality.
18. Raises quality issues to right levels of management using established channels of escalation.
19. Perform other duties as assigned
20. Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:
21. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience in software testing.
22. 5+ years Quality Assurance and/or systems testing experience is required.
23. Experience in working with Test Management and Defect Management Tools.
24. 3+ years Test automation experience.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed for the job:
25. Understanding and experience with platform and operating system architecture.
26. Relevant software quality certification preferred.
27. Proficient in Cypress, Kubernetes or Cucumber beneficial.
28. Domain experience such as SWIFT payments or banking industry experience advantageous.
Benefits: In return for your expertise, we offer growth, opportunity, and a competitive compensation and benefits package in a casual work environment.
Are you ready to help us transform the world of electronic payments? To learn more about ACI Worldwide, visit our web site at Job ID (Requisition 13924)
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ACI Worldwide is an AA/EEO employer in the United States, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and an EEO employer globally.