Job Description
Position Description
The Sr. Quality Assurance Web & Automation Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of new features as well as improvement of existing functionality across internal and external Web applications. This includes Integration testing, Customer Data Quality testing, Usability (Functional and Performance) testing, Regression testing etc.
This is a hands-on testing position which requires deep knowledge and understanding of all aspects of planning, developing, and executing Front-end as well as Back-end testing. The Sr. Test Engineer must be an advocate for all things Testing and Quality Assurance while driving and implementing best practices. The ideal candidate must possess strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
Exceptional Manual testing as well as Automated testing skills are required
The Test Engineer will interface with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Developers, End Users and Scrum Masters to deliver products with high quality and on schedule. The Test Engineer will lead, guide, and monitor junior testers during the analysis, design and execution of the test cases and test suites. This position is heavily focused on automation.
Duties and responsibilities:
· Review business requirements, functional specifications, use cases, design, and architecture documents to create effective, value-add test plans.
· Identify issues in data, application configurations and screen designs, report and oversee issue resolution.
· Become an expert in business rules, system functionality and architecture.
· Plan and execute Manual, Functional, and Regression test suite.
· Develop, execute, and maintain Automated Regression suite.
· Independently develop, modify, and execute test plans based on requirements and design documents.
· Provide estimates and timeframe necessary for testing a project to ensure a high-quality implementation.
· Contribute to and maintain project documentation.
· Provide concise and consistent status reporting.
· Identify, report and track defects and User Experience issues through a system of record.
· Collaborate with external teams on root cause analysis.
· Maintain close interaction with business and technical peers during the project life cycle.
· Ensuring proper traceability from requirements to test artifacts.
· Actively participate in requirements and code reviews.
· Actively participate and drive improvements in Agile Scrum delivery.
· Be a thought leader in the test design and execution arena (manual and automated).
· Identify process bottlenecks and suggest improvement actions.
· Stay abreast of emerging technologies and testing approaches.
· Assist leadership with defining and improving the overall QA and SDLC process.
· Creation and input of test data, either manually or by using tools, programs, or masked production data to execute test cases.
· Oversee work, mentor/coach of junior QA Engineers.
Position Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area.
· Strong hands-on experience in Planning and Manual test execution.
· Strong hands-on experience in Regression Test Strategies, Regression suite maintenance and execution.
· Hands-on experience with Automated Testing tools such as Selenium, TestComplete, UFT etc...
· Strong hands-on experience using SQL queries for results validation and data mining.
· At least 8 years of professional experience on a variety of projects in Test Strategy, Test Design, Test Execution analysis & reporting.
· Hands-on experience with Jira, ALM, TFS/ADO or similar systems of record.
· Deep understanding of Development and Test cycles, including respective best practices.
· Strong hands-on experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Strong ability to troubleshoot issues, identifying root causes and support development team in development of resolutions.
· Experience in Mobile and API testing is a strong plus.
· Hands-on experience with one or more of the following languages (Python, JS, PowerShell, etc.).
· Strong communication and Client/Business interfacing and interpersonal skills are a must.
· Verifiable experience developing and maintaining a C# Test automation framework.
· Verifiable experience developing and maintaining a Selenium test framework that integrates with C#.
