Functional Tester Job Description
Functional Tester Duties & Responsibilities
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Functional Tester Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Functional Tester
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Functional Tester Job Description
- Strong organizational skills including good time management, prioritizing tasks, estimating activities, and meeting deadlines
- Must be able to multi-task and work independently or in a team
- Testing the infrastructure components as opposed to application testing
- Making sure Operating systems are healthy and firewalls working correctly but also allowing
- Test Design creatiion, update
- Participate in analytical meetings in order to decompose business needs to functional requirements, estimate them and compose acceptance criteria
- Experience in Unix and any programming language is a plus
- Experience in Jira and Confluence applications is a big plus
- Review of test scripts written by your colleagues
- Manual test execution of scripts designed by you or your colleagues
- Practical experience with UNIX Shell Scripting, SSH, JAVA
- Experience in monitoring system performance using tools such as DynaTrace, NMON and Wiley
- Experience working in a Non-Functional Test role with strong planning and organisational skills
- Good service delivery skills with the other teams in the department
- Be the evangelist of Functional Testing for the rest of the team
- Have formal qualifications such as a degree in Computer Science and ISEB / ISTQB Software Testing certification
Functional Tester Job Description
- Reviews relevant documentation
- Apply Testing Methodologies, create test plans, create test scripts, execute manual test scripts, document results, and execution of test scenarios in the Oracle Application
- Assist in the analysis of functional and technical requirements the creation and editing of test cases for new or modified systems
- Finding and analyzing software faults
- Participating in the software development process for mobile networks
- Maintaining and developing automated system for analyzing and reporting faults
- Optimizing existing Continuous Integration Systems
- Performing quality control of provided code
- Inspecting automated test
- Automating daily tasks and operations
- Implement and document benchmarks on SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA), Gateway (SAG) and WebPlatform (SWP)
- Help developing a capacity planning roadmap for the SWIFT Network product team
- Test SWIFT systems capacity from both backend and front ends by developing repeatable cases for the SWIFT infrastructure
- Increase and enhance SWIFT monitoring Testing Capacity
- Management of the capacity phase cycle of infrastructure upgrades in partnership with Operations&Technology Infrastructure Teams
- Represent the NFT go-to person of the SWIFT Network product team
Functional Tester Job Description
- Performing non-functional testing against back-end / service layer implementations within an agile software development environment utilising continuous delivery pipeline
- Comfortable with taking full ownership of the non-functional test process that includes ownership of the sign-off of each release
- Building and designing real world test scenarios that are integrated into the continuous delivery pipeline
- Able to take ownership of test environments to include the scheduling and deployment of production-ready software in every iteration
- Participate in testing, troubleshooting and analysis on the development of systems
- Provide support in the development, implementation and maintenance of test processes and diagnostic programs
- Hands on experience to plans and conducts all testing phases along with User and third-party testing for new and modified application components
- Tracks defects and confers with developers or functional resources to resolve them
- Triage and communicate across teams to coordinate and execute all test activities
- Define the test approach to accommodate contingencies without compromising the quality of code delivered to the Client
- Work closely with the NF Tester(s) to provide infrastructure sign off
- Be the evangelist of NFT for the rest of the team
- Familiar with performance testing / Volume testing
- Good Knowledge of Product Development Life Cycle and Software Test Life Cycle
- Candidate’s presence in the team must boost the positive environment in the team
- Should be able to think differently and come with out of the box solutions for day to day problems
Functional Tester Job Description
- Conduct HIGLAS test activities and coordinate with test teams to ensure timely, orderly test execution
- Execute and monitor testing to ensure established processes are followed
- Attend status meetings, entry and exit review meetings
- Obtains CMS sign-off on test scripts and test activities, as required
- Static Test reviews (of Business Requirement, Functional Specification documents)
- Requirements for test data
- Website testing and general application testing
- Developing tests and test scripts, and documenting expected results
- Mapping tests to system/software requirements
- Conducting multiple cycles of regression testing during User Acceptance Testing
- Represent the QA go-to person of the SWIFT Network product team
- Hands on Experience in Functional and Non Functional Testing of Java/J2EE based applications
- Experience of developing or working on Automation Framework system/Application
- Knowledge of REST/Web services/APIs
- Take on additional responsibilities with positive attitude
- A knowledge of Java, SQL And Linux platform
Functional Tester Job Description
- Conducting Business Verification Testing during release cutover activities
- Categorizing defects found during testing and communicating the scenario in which the defect was discovered
- Documenting the results of testing, providing test reports, and presenting the results
- Some out of hours working to support production go live events
- Design and code functional tests
- Participate in test case reviews and obtain clarification where necessary
- Review and revise QC test process through ongoing research &/or training on best practices
- Some knowledge of writing SQL
- Create test cases and test data as per requirements
- Analyze test cases thoroughly to ensure adequate coverage of requirements
- Execute test cases, analyze test results and accordingly log defects, track and re-test defects
- Experience in writing SQL queries for backend validation
- Knowledge of Hyperion (HFM) function preferred