QA Test Engineer

QA Test Engineer

Salary: $56,250-$75,000

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Job Description

• Participate in developing and documenting user stories, including testing estimates and validation tests.
• Develop, document, and maintain test strategies and test scenarios.
• Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are thoroughly tested and that issues are clearly documented and consistently prioritized.
• Manage the defect log and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of fixes.
• Work with integration and build teams to manage software releases across Development, QA, and Production environments.
• Evaluate product requirements to create, modify, and execute test cases for functional manual testing, and report results clearly and concisely to Agile team members.
• Report and troubleshoot defects directly with developers and other members of the Agile team.
• Effectively communicate test plans, test reports, results, and QA metrics to the team.
• Perform manual testing across a variety of areas, including mobile and web applications, accessibility, analytics, and hardware/firmware.
• Contribute to QA standards, guidelines, processes, and procedures as needed.
• Participate in the analysis of major incidents and emergency changes to identify opportunities to improve software quality and strengthen test coverage.
• Design and execute cross-system integration and regression tests for each release.
• Review automated QA test suites that can be provided to Reliability, Operations, or Production Support teams for operational validation of systems.
• Assist with the management and maintenance of appropriate test environments.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and document and estimate the QA strategy for each user story or development task.

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance within an Agile environment.
• 1+ year of experience with automated Software Quality Assurance practices, including BDD/TDD.
• 2+ years of experience working with Secure Development Lifecycle processes.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management, including user registration, access provisioning, role-based access control, and user de-provisioning.
• Experience performing QA for consumer-facing transactional applications, Point-of-Sale systems, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
• Experience testing mobile websites and native mobile applications across iOS and Android.
• Experience working with high-availability architectures in large, high-traffic environments.
• Experience testing web applications developed using JavaScript, CSS, XHTML/HTML, or similar technologies.
• Experience testing backend applications and APIs developed using Java and/or C#, including environments utilizing SQL, NoSQL, messaging technologies, and caching technologies.
• Experience testing applications with user interfaces implemented using Visual Basic or similar technologies.
• Experience performing QA for web applications across multiple browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, and operating systems such as Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android.
• Strong understanding of network topologies and networking technologies.
• Strong understanding of data management practices, including hands-on experience with SQL.
• Experience with full software development and deployment lifecycles using Agile practices.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, shell scripting, or similar technologies.
• Experience with performance and load testing of web applications.
• Experience using Splunk or similar observability/logging platforms to query application metrics and investigate operational behavior.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations.