Job Description

We are looking for a Sr. Quality Engineer who has a hybrid skill set of traditional quality analyst and quality engineer. This individual must have proven experience in both manual and automated testing. The Sr. QE will work closely with a scrum team and Business Quality Analyst to drive built-in quality and adoption of best practices on test automation and must be  familiar with agile concepts and practices.

Responsibilities:

• Drive ‘built-in quality’ and ‘whole team testing’ techniques during product implementation of a scrum team.
• Participate actively in grooming of stories and analysis of acceptance criteria.
• Design QA test plan for each sprint and identify testing requirements and dependencies
• Collaborate and share test scenarios with developers to drive a test-driven development approach and apply behavior driven testing approach
• Develop and perform functional testing, acceptance testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing
• Responsible for all aspects of the QA workflow, including the development of test strategies, for manual or automated test execution
• Develop and execute manual or automated tests (functional, integration, regression and systems testing)
• Properly document testing issues to aid others in the quick and efficient remediation of the issue.
• Support User Acceptance Testing which includes communication of scope, readiness and known issues that impacts UAT
• Work closely with the scrum team to resolve customer issues
• Participate actively in all scrum ceremonies including sprint retrospective
• Mentor traditional QA on best practices on test automation
• Uphold and contribute to testing best practices in agile environment.
• Promote continuous process improvement and drive towards continuous testing.

Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of QA/QE experience working in an agile environment plus 3+ years in automated testing
• Able to decompose business requirements and develop and execute manual and automated tests. He/She must have strong knowledge and proven experience with performing both automation and manual testing
• Able to collaborate with developers and share test scenarios to prevent potential defects
• Experience/understanding of cloud eco-system and testing
• Knowledge of HTTP, RESTful services, API Testing, JSON syntax
• Experience writing and executing SQL scripts
• Experience with batch job testing using Unix and running Shell scripts
• Experience with Web Service testing using SoapUI or Postman
• Experience with E2E  and mobile test automation  using  tools like Testim, Browserstack or comparable E2E testing tools.
• Experience with API Test automation using Node.js,  Typescript or Javascript, and Chai/Mocha framework
• Ability to support maintenance of automated tests running in  Selenium, .Net and C#
• Understands unit test  and code coverage. Has used  tools like SonarCloud and SonarQube
• Drive automation innovation and streamline overall testing processes
• Perform peer review to identify improvements in test strategy
• Participate actively in developing test automation strategy for scrum team and for the department
• Write automated tests as part of Sprint work (In-Sprint automation)
• Hand-on experience on GitHub, Bitbucket, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure DevOps or other modern Build/Source code tools is a plus
• Experience with test automation on hybrid applications (on-prem and in the cloud, i.e. AWS and Azure) 
• Understanding of Test Management Tools and Issue Tracking Tools (preferably Jira, Confluence, Test Management for JIRA or Azure DevOps).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Previous experience working in a software (PaaS) or product development environment preferred
• Strong understanding of quality principles and practices and structured testing
• Ability to interface effectively with scrum team
• Understanding of accountability and ownership.
• Self-Motivated.  Driven to complete work assignments, but also to volunteer to take on unassigned work if needed.
• Possess a high-energy level, a strong sense of urgency, be self-motivated and work extremely well under pressure
• Strong organization, time management skills and attention to detail.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of experience in quality assurance/ quality engineering testing role.
• Experience in scaled agile environment (SAFe)
• Bonus:
  • Knowledge of Vehicle Remarketing or Online Auction Platform
  • Cloud Experience (AWS, Azure)
  • Experience with TDD and BDD
  • Industry recognized certification in testing practices/fundamentals or SDLC a plus.
  • Previous experience in writing test automation

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Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: Quality analyst and Quality Engineer. Salaries: Not Disclosed.

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