Quality Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work as a member of an agile team to develop procedures for ensuring on-time, on-quality delivery of a Cloud-based SAAS solution.
• Develop automation plans, test plans & test cases to provide efficient primary and regression test coverage of scrum team deliverables.
• Execute functional, system, regression, and performance tests as required.
• Automate test cases using a Specflow, Ruby, Cucumber, and Gherkin based framework
• Provide accurate estimates and status updates.
• Provide regular updates on the status of open issues and potential risks.
• Document bugs with details and supporting materials to enable developers to reproduce and address efficiently.
• Effectively communicate with remote and local team members.
• Review product requirements, functional specs, and design specifications to create comprehensive test cases.
• Communicate project risks as soon as possible and offer viable mitigation strategies.
• Design and build realistic test environments.
• Host review sessions and provide constructive feedback to developers as well as other test engineers.
• Work with the support organization to quickly resolve customer issues.

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of prior experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• 3+ years of experience with responsibility for developing automation plans, test plans & test cases.
• 2+ years of experience performing test automation.
• 2+ years of experience testing web applications.
• Experience testing solutions developed on Microsoft platforms.
• 1+ years of experience with a programming or scripting language.
• Prior experience with Cucumber or demonstrated ability to rapidly learn test automation frameworks.
• Ability to work both independently and as a cross-functional team member.
• Understanding of relational databases including Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Thorough knowledge of all aspects of software development lifecycle.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated supervisory / leadership skills.
• Excellent time management skills, including multi-tasking and prioritization.

Education

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering General

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