Quality Assurance Engineer

SUMMARY

The Sr Software Quality Engineer is a hands-on daily contributor who performs complex testing tasks requiring planning, scheduling, and testing to assure that developed products meet design specifications and are within total quality management limits and standards.  They will communicate with product, developers and technical support specialists on product issues; operate under general supervision and report to the Software Quality Engineering Manager.  This position requires five to eight years of experience in software quality engineering and a strong automation background.  

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.
• Understanding project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.
• Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.
• Investigating customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports.
• Handling technical communications and understanding the customers' systems.
• Working with deployments teams, resolving level issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.
• Analyzing and disintegrating software systems and coordinating with other teams to fix bugs and feature changes.
• Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.
• Managing the final quality on production release.
• Involving with incident management processes.
• Conduct and analyze daily automated regression tests and smoke tests

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE 

• Software Quality Engineering experience including web application testing - including functional, systems integration testing, automation, performance, security
• Expert programming in several high level languages (C#, Java C++, Perl)
• Extensive experience with RestAssured and/or Selenium for web page testing
• Ability to communicate effectively with management at all levels relative to test requirements, strategies, approaches and results
•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer related field preferred with five (5) to eight (8) years experience and/or equivalent work experience. Experience leading and mentoring multiple teams and projects required; or equivalent education and experience to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Must Have:

• Be a team player with strong team spirit.
• Excellent designing and programming skills.
• Knowledge of C# programming languages and process management methodology.
• Experience in Selenium WebDriver and best practices is must.
• Agile/Scrum process experience is required.
• Knowledge of test methodologies and their corresponding tools.
• ISTQB Certification.
• Exposure to Behavior Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Experience in TDD and KDD will be an advantage.
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application.
• A passion for testing, development, and design.
• Knowledge of React and Angular will be a plus point.
• Experience on Microsoft Azure or/and AWS cloud environment will be beneficial.
• Working with tools/platforms such PowerBI, SauceLab, report portal would be an added advantage.

· Excellent designing and programming skills.