Senior QA Testing Specialist at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

This consultancy aims to support the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration's growing movement of Lead Agencies, Global Partners, Supporting Partners, Restoration Implementers, and affiliated entities and individuals through a digital hub. As part of this hub and to better link restoration efforts on the ground to a growing global movement of supporters, the UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration is currently developing a digital hub "marketplace." An early, Minimum-Viable-Product, allowing restorations partners and implementors to transact financially, exchange knowledge, and source human resources. Under the direct supervision of the Communications Manager for the UN Decade within the Communications Division and the hub's Product Owner, the consultant will perform several specialized QA tasks that contribute to the successful launch of this marketplace.

Tasks:

• analyze requirements and prepare a query list;
• develop functional and integration test plan and test scripts based on functional requirements and design specifications;
• execute test cases to find system bugs like UI and usability issues;
• conduct exploratory testing;
• check consistency across devices, browsers, and operating systems;
• provide inputs on high-level test scenarios, challenges, risks, test estimates

Qualifications/special skills

• Academic Qualifications: Master’s degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field is required. A Bachelor’s degree with combined of two years experience may be accepted in lieu of advanced degree . The consultant should also know agile and scrum terminology, practices, and principles and have certification in Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and/or and Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Experience: Minimum of five years experience in quality testing delivery and management, risk, controls. AML/KYC or related field is required. Deep understanding of software testing, its main concepts, and processes: the whole bug life cycle; different testing levels, methods, and types; test estimation techniques; is desirable.
• Language: English and French are the working languages of the UN Secretariat. For this assignment, fluency in written and spoken English is required.

Closing: 21 July 2022