Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

Our client is looking for a QA engineer to be a part of a QA team responsible for implementing QA strategies and solutions that meet the needs of their systems.

The individual will implement the standards and processes of the organization in a collaborative manner with the QA Architect and overall team.

This role is hands on with the ideal candidate having QA experience in an agile environment.

Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Lead QA initiatives within the project / organization assigned
• Work with business to align expectations in line with quality practices
• Analyze defects, metrics and conduct hand-on testing
• Identify automation opportunities and incorporate those opportunities into the general automation implementation / strategy

Essential Skills & Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Related fields
• Experience in Financial Systems, Trading, Risk and or Demand Response systems
• Ideal candidate comfortable testing non-UI based solutions leveraging various technical approaches and aggregating results to team and management
• Excellent MS Excel capabilities to solution test approaches as well as other analytics tools
• 2+ years working with Automated testing frameworks and supporting tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Maven and Ranorex
• Experience with testing web services (e.g. RESTful APIs) and tools associated (e.g. SOAP UI, Fiddler, Etc.)
• Experience operating and delivering in an agile environment such as SAFe / scrum / kanban.
• Proficiency use of Microsoft Office programs including Visio, Word, Outlook and strong Excel skills
• Experience working with various Test Management solutions such as ALM, Zephyr, TFS Test Module, etc.
• Experience in creating / modifying and DB queries from SQL or MongoDB based databases
• Excellent analytical, organization and time management skill with a focus on attention to detail.
• Work within team environment and ability to align with team goals and objectives

Requirements :

• 5-7 years IT experience in a Software QA with at least 2 years of Automation development.
• Ability to drill down into the details of a delivery request without losing sight of the big picture.
• Self-motivated with the desire to consistently improve performance and gain further knowledge

Preferred Skills :

• Experience in power, distribution, and the energy industry
• Experience multiple operating systems including Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Experience with various branching & merging testing strategies
• Experience with Agile work management tools such as Jira, Azure Devops, Axosoft, etc.

About WiredHive :

WiredHive is an Information Technology staffing and direct hire placement firm based in Dallas, TX. WiredHive supports clients across multiple industries including, but not limited to, Technology, Energy / Utilities, Financial Services, and Healthcare.

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