Quality Engineer position

Our client is looking for an Quality Assurance Engineer. This position is hybrid 3 days a week out of their Cleveland OH or Buffalo NY.

All candidates are required to work on our W2 and are able to partake in all the benefits we offer. These include medical, dental, vision, 401k, disability.

Required :

• Detail Oriented - highly organized, very conscientious, takes great pride in quality of work, strong in critical thinking - documentation of and managing test case definition, executions, ability to learn and comprehend varying system to system connectivity requirements
• Seasoned Quality Assurance / QA testing experience in large projects and on mature applications with many integrations, the type of candidate that is a leader - not only learns, performs but improves and teaches / enables others, strong communication skills and easy to understand / easy to work with
• Excellent Communicator and Technically strong - ability to dig in and manage through Postman / SOAP UI API endpoint validation testing, works well directly with software developers and engineers, passion / interest experience in actual scripting / test automation screen scraping tools, Sellenium

Quality Assurance Engineer IT-

Coordinates all of the planning, execution and recap functions involved in testing and injecting quality safeguards into the development and deployment of software applications. This individual may direct other QA professionals or may be the sole resource on an effort. They are responsible for fostering collaboration and cooperation with the greater project team in the pursuit of delivering a high-quality product.

Job Description

Quality Assurance Engineer IT coordinates all of the planning, execution and recap functions involved in testing and injecting quality safeguards into the development and deployment of software applications. This individual may direct other QA professionals or may be the sole resource on an effort. They are responsible for fostering collaboration and cooperation with the greater project team in the pursuit of delivering a high-quality product.

Essential Job Functions

• System integration testing.
• Regular regression testing of system functions.
• Collaboration with multiple different engineers, testers, Quality Assurance teams both inside and outside the department.
• Test Data harvesting and management.
• Detailed organization and managing of disparate systems that interface or have various complex timing, data dependencies or batch executions.
• Ability to translate design, UX, requirements into actionable test cases that can be executed, document how to execute them, prerequisites and test conditions.
• Ability to define and mockup both positive and negative scenarios, as well as work on edge case testing.
• Ability to work well in fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal.
• Ability to estimate efforts, inclusive of unknowns and ambiguity.
• Leads the QA team for a project and is answerable to all activities conducted to ensure quality.
• Oversees the quality in all phases of the project including Requirement review, test script preparation, and test execution and recap.
• Identifies gaps and confusions in the user interface and / or the workflow, etc., and highlights to the project team the risks associated with technical debt, schedule slippage or other areas of concern.
• Schedules resources, estimates QAS portion of project estimates and forecasts, manages testing needs with Shared Services, manages the PLC tollgates, calculates and manages traceability and test coverage, assists with test result triage, reports on overall application / project health and intercedes, when appropriate, with remediation efforts.
• Creates a collaborative partnership with the Tech Lead, the PM, the BAs and other project participants and actively engages in grooming sessions, status meetings and other project meetings.
• Highly valued as a thought leader contributing to the final product.
• Manages the human capital for a specific effort.

Education / Certifications :

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.

Experience :

• Moderate quality assurance experience with solid organizational skills and a basic knowledge of quality assurance practices and methods.
• Understands the test automation coverage and guides exploratory testers to fill the gaps.
• Base understanding of an application domain, the release schedule, the user community, and can work with the other members of the project team to drive delivery.
• Understands how to assess an application's functionality by risk, impact and importance in order to prioritize the test execution and concentrate test coverage appropriately.
• Test Automation Selenium / WebDriver IO scripting experience a plus.
• Three to five years or more in QA testing role(s) preferred.
• Experience in Agile team.

Competencies and Skills :

• Able to leverage the resources available to them to identify the opportunities for automation, service virtualization and other shared services offered by QA.
• Good communication skills.
• Able to lead in all phases of the project and can communicate with others in the organization about the status and risks of the effort in detail.
• Highly proficient in Jira or other similar tools like Azure Dev Ops
• Experience with XRAY (Jira test case tool) a plus.
• Experience with requirements tracked in Confluence