Senior Quality Engineer

About NTT DATA Europe & Latam

We are a dedicated Quality Assurance Competence Center committed to delivering high-quality software testing services across diverse industries and technologies. Acting as a true center of excellence, we provide deep expertise, proven methodologies, and best practices for both manual and automated testing. Our mission is to ensure software quality and reliability for complex enterprise systems and digital solutions, while driving innovation in test automation, performance testing, and quality engineering. We also support clients in modernizing their QA processes, including migrating frameworks from legacy tools to modern solutions, enabling faster delivery cycles and improved product quality.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Senior Quality Engineer to join our QA team. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in manual testing, a sharp eye for detail, and the ability to work collaboratively within Agile environments. You will play a key role in ensuring software quality and reliability through comprehensive test planning, execution, and defect analysis.

What You'll Be Doing as a Senior Quality Engineer

• Plan and execute specific testing approaches within defined stage of development e.g. risk based, exploratory, SIT, E2E, regression, security, usability etc.
• Analyse functional and technical specifications and user stories to develop test cases and scenarios.
• Work on the test scope and scenarios with key stakeholders and keep them informed of progress and any challenges/escalations.
• Identify issues and risks relating to workload, escalate these and provide solutions.
• Report defects and assist in their understanding and work alongside the right stakeholders to triage the bug.
• Use a holistic approach to QA, reviewing test types and coverage, processes, runbooks, and documentation to mature the engineering and operational maturity of the department as it grows.
• Work alongside Quality Engineers to gain an in-depth level of understanding of the system under test to enable risk assessment/mitigation and detailed estimation, creation, and execution of test artefacts.
• Document and store helpful team quality process and procedure documentation.

What You'll Bring Along

• Bachelor’s degree in Informatics/ or similar field of study/or equivalent working experience is required.
• Minimum 5 years demonstrable experience in a similar role is required.
• Experience of working in both an agile IT development model and a more traditional model, ensuring quality is embedded as early as possible (shift left).
• Knowledge of all the different facets of test coverage, including unit testing, functional, usability, accessibility, performance, capacity, security, integration testing, compatibility etc.
• Up-to-date Testing industry knowledge and ability to bring new ways of working in-house to improve the output.
• Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills.
• Efficient planning skills and an ability to adhere to deadlines.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with test management tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
• Basic knowledge of SQL for database validation.
• Excellent English verbal and written skills.

Key Skills/Competency

• Software Quality Assurance
• Manual Testing
• Test Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• Defect Analysis
• Test Planning
• Risk Management
• SQL
• JIRA
• Performance Testing