Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance - Advanced

Location: Plano, TX

Duration: 6 Months CTH

This is a W2 position that requires candidates to be onsite for 3 days in a week (Hybrid role).

Responsibilities:

• Lead the transformation of testing into a continuous and efficient end-to-end quality engineering function through the use of quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving accuracy and integrity.
• Evolve more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing solutions.
• Drive standards around test driven design and integration testing across the product teams.
• Master, improve and innovate upon our existing tools and processes for testing, monitoring and measuring our applications in pre-production environments.
• Build, implement and utilize testing frameworks and reporting tools capability at organization level that will be adopted across the enterprise.
• Work with agile approaches and techniques, including Scrum, User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Manual/Automated Testing, and supporting feature development through active participation in an Agile team.
• Collaborate with product owners to strategize & align long term solution for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework & approach
• Collaborate with quality architect to bring modern practices including Synthetic testing, Contract Testing (Pact.io), and Continuous Testing practices
• Creating of APIs and Dashboards to determine and report data on environment health and application quality.
• Partnership with SRE team to enable and improve automation with tools and processes in non-prod environments.
• Interact and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences including offshore and onshore remote teams.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and working with test automation frameworks and developing automated test scripts
• Demonstrated experience in Agile practices, DevOps, CI/CD pipeline, Continuous testing in both conventional and cloud environments.
• Experience with performance test tools such as JMeter, Load Runner, Blazemeter.
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Able to communicate with different levels of leadership
• Strong technology acumen and track record of hands-on implementations across multiple technologies.
• Thorough understanding and hands on experience in developing, enhancing automation testing frameworks.
• Ability to translate technical data and concepts into actionable testing approaches. Strong background in implementing enterprise initiatives on a large scale.
• Experience in Agile development, including entering User Stories, Bugs, Enhancements, Burndown, and working with offshore resources.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline. Combination of education and relevant work experience will be considered.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with monitoring tools: DynaTrace, Splunk or App Dynamics
• Experience developing and presenting detailed Performance Test Analysis reports.
• Understanding of Testing Maturity Models and how they are applied to increase maturity of quality and IT organization to enable continuous improvement.