Senior Quality Engineer_Berkley Heights, NJ

Senior Quality Engineer (Manual)

Location: Berkley Heights, NJ, US

Job Overview

We are looking for a curious, details-oriented Senior Quality Engineer who is skilled in exploratory and functional testing. You will join the team and help expand our testing regimen, ensuring that every corner of the application is covered with the most thorough test runs known to man, woman or beast, while simultaneously maintaining the responsiveness.

We use tools like Jira, Xray, Jenkins, Appium, Xcode, Android Studio, TestFlight, Kibana, Mobile testing (Android and iOS), TDD Test Automation, Pytest and Cucumber Testing Frameworks. We believe in evaluating better technologies in order to continuously improve our testing efficiency and coverage.  While we value expertise with the tools above, we know that smart QEs are great learners as well.  

Quality Engineering is an integral part of the product-development team and closely involved in every step along the way - from ideation of the project, during implementation, and to the final deployment. Assuring the quality of our product is a heavy responsibility. Our development team builds in rapid iterations and our QE team needs to respond to that. 

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be working in a cross functional team of designers, developers, product and project managers to build a world class banking product focused on the next generation workers. 

Reports to 

Quality Engineering Manager

Responsibilities and Duties

•Responsible for in-sprint functional testing of the scheduled releases and maintaining the regression suite

•Create and maintain E2E test execution cycles and perform continuous testing using Jenkins and SauceLabs

• Creation of test plans, test strategies, test cycles and test cases using BDD Gherkin language

• Work closely with the product and development team to meet the requirements for functional, regression and sanity testing

• Assess the reports generated after automated scripts execution  and identify bugs

• Familiar with reporting bugs on Jira and defect lifecycle management

• Responsible for managing the Jira board from opening to completion of tasks and target to meet the deadline of the project

• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation on Confluence

• Communicate project status and discuss release plan with their Manage 

• Most important - candidate should be confident to own the project and take ownership and run the project with less support or direction

Qualifications and Skills

• 6+ years of software testing experience in native iOS and android mobile applications

• 3+ years of experience in functional testing of the web applications

• Strong grasp of testing methodologies for all types of testing - Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke, White box, and Black box testing

• Experience working with Atlassian products like JIRA, Xray and Confluence

• Experience working with Postman and API Testing

• Experience with BDD Gherkin scripting language

• Experience in working closely with the software development and product team in an agile environment

• Time management skills, ability to meet deadlines, and function in a fast paced and flexible environment

• Experienced in release cycle management in an agile environment

• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial

• Detail oriented with superior analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous

•Experience in handling multiple projects at the same time in a fast paced environment

• Good understanding of Source Code management and Version Control systems like GitHub, SourceTree

• Knowledge of Android Studio and Xcode

Nice to have

• Experience and knowledge in the Fintech industry is an asset

•Experience using SauceLabs is an asset