Quality Engineer

Develop quality standards

• Analyse product development processes to identify quality standards at each stage of the process
• Identify user requirements and expectations to develop quality standards for end products
• Develop quality standards that incorporates international standards and best practices in quality
• Identify matrices to assess for quality
• Develop user guides on quality standards to define requirements, specifications, guidelines, and characteristics of processes and products
• Analyse compliance level to quality standards and identify areas for change
• Conduct assessments of existing quality standards against evolving user requirements, business needs and regulatory changes

Develop quality testing processes

• Identify quality testing types and variations for each phase of the product development process or lifecycle based on business needs and requirements
• Identify objectives of quality tests for each phase of the development process or lifecycle
• Outline steps in the quality test process required to achieve test objectives
• Identify applicable and relevant international standards and practices
• Develop quality testing processes for each phase of the development process or lifecycle

Develop plans to execute quality testing

• Identify suitable quality measures for testing based on product attributes valued most by users
• Develop test plans
• Develop quality testing approaches and steps to satisfy test objectives
• Create test scenarios that complies with established testing procedures and guidelines
• Work with relevant teams to plan for quality testing based on established testing procedures and guidelines

Perform quality testing

• Conduct quality tests across phases of the product development process or lifecycle to assess performance of quality measures under different operational and usage conditions
• Analyse data from quality tests to determine optimal operational and usage conditions
• Utilise tools to test and analyse factors leading to failure of quality standards
• Identify operating and usage conditions in which performance of quality measures drops
• Document quality testing outcomes
• Provide suggestions to improve performance of quality measures
• Develop tools to automate quality testing for suitable types of tests
• Implement automated test cases and codes for quality testing
• Conduct applicable security testing with relevant functional teams
• Address quality issues and impediments to achieving quality standards in an Agile environment

Optimise quality processes

• Identify opportunities to optimise time and cost spent on system quality processes
• Propose improvements to optimise quality testing process and improve the quality systems
• Conduct research on industry best practices and new methodologies, practices and tools to optimise quality processes

Development and Implementation

Investigate process drivers of quality, and recommend quality management infrastructure, techniques and tools to facilitate quality optimisation

Governance and Compliance

Assess existing quality standards and align processes and activities with IT product and service quality expectations

Development and Implementation

Adopt Agile software development methodologies to develop, improve and deploy software applications

Development and Implementation

Develop basic applications with secure features, run routine application tests, and conduct debugging to resolve errors

Business Finance

Prepare business unit’s operational budgets

Business and Project Management

Elicit and analyse business requirements from key stakeholders and assess relevant solutions and their potential impact

General Management

Monitor performance of the department

Development and Implementation

Implement failure analysis to determine if defect is caused by electrical or physical failure

Business Development

Identify and analyse business opportunities

Stakeholder and Contract Management

Support the development and coordination of partnerships with external stakeholders and organisations

Operations and User Support

Handle specific problems from diagnosis and prioritisation to the identification and implementation of solutions

Business and Project Management

Identify and Implement the adoption of process improvement and optimisation methods

Development and Implementation

Evaluate data to establish whether processes are reproducible and capable of consistently delivering quality products

Business and Project Management

Oversee small projects or programmes, managing timelines, resources, risks and stakeholdersOversee small projects or programmes, managing timelines, resources, risks and stakeholders

Design and Architecture

Design simple software components, assessing functionality of different elements, and produce design documentation

Development and Implementation

Design test scenarios and implement new or complex tests, investigating issues or gaps between actual and expected results

Stakeholder and Contract Management

Serve as the organisation's main contact point for stakeholder communications, clarifying responsibilities among stakholders, and engaging them to align expectations

Strategy Planning and Implementation

Analyse strategies for critical business functions to ensure plans are within risk mitigation factors

Development and Implementation

Determine requirements and develop a phase test plan, identifying optimal schedules and means for executing test scripts