Software Quality Engineer

Software Quality Engineer

We are seeking a Software Quality Engineer to work within a team of engineers, analysts and UX design to develop high quality applications servicing the financial industry. You will have the opportunity to work with our client in a group that focuses on developing engaging experiences that deliver valuable services to our customers. You will be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers a high-quality product to their customers.

Our client's team runs and behaves much like a start-up within the company, to develop capabilities for users/participants to donate time, expertise and money to non-profit organizations. They have a culture that allows you to share, collaborate and be yourself in a highly dynamic workplace. The team uses a variety of technologies that either use your current skills or build a platform for continuing to grow by learning new technologies.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• A BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent. 2+ years of related experience.
• Experience with any JavaScript scripting technologies to implement end-to-end test automation such as: Serenity, CodeceptJS, Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress
• Experience with mobile testing automation tools and test data creation.
• Experience with Web Services testing such as: Rest Assured, SOATest, SOAPUI, POSTMAN, SWAGGER, Service Virtualization
• Familiar with SQL or similar database query technologies.
• Proven test automation experience using JS frameworks such as Jest, Chai, Jasmine, karma, protractor is a plus
• Knowledge with Performance testing tools such as JMeter.
• Understanding of all aspects of the Testing Pyramid – Unit Testing, Component Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing and Manual Testing.
• Knowledge of Jenkins or other continuous integration systems to incorporate and streamline test automation into build CI/CD pipelines and quality gates
• Excellent knowledge of the software development lifecycle and familiarity with Agile Ceremonies

The Skills You Bring

• Highly productive in an agile project delivery environment.
• Your ability to thrive in a dynamic and fluid organization where priorities shift to respond to changing business needs.
• Demonstrated experience at building strong relationships.
• Experience championing innovative QA ideas.
• Ability to influence and champion ideas across management levels and diverse groups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborate and communicate openly and effectively with team-mates.
• Effective at traversing the gap across distributed teams.
• Dynamic ‘can do’ attitude with a strong appetite to make things happen.
• Solid technical background of solving problems and identifying root causes.
• You’re able to quickly assess and become knowledgeable about subject matter/become the authority.
• You demonstrate ownership and accountability through proactive task management.

You Deliver Value By:

• Having a team-oriented attitude. Proactively jumping in to help teammates when they need it, and being willing to let your teammates know that you need help when you do.
• Putting yourself in the shoes of our users and admins to make sure features, and the product, aren’t just functional, but are easy and intuitive to use.
• Being passionate about delivering a quality product, and advocating for changes that will improve it
• Writing good, intuitive, easy-to-read code, and helping your teammates do the same
• Gaining an understanding of the high-level component makeup of the Product.
• Working with our Scrum Master & Product Owner to understand Release dates and objectives for the Product.
• Analyzing Acceptance Criteria to understand the full picture of the business value being delivered.
• Identifying potential gaps in Acceptance Criteria and working with Product Owner & Systems Analysts to update criteria accordingly.
• Participate in iteration planning to maintain velocity and deliver quality each sprint.
• Actively speaking in iteration planning to help the team predict testing challenges, and otherwise help the team to think more holistically about the challenges and opportunities of upcoming work
• Writing automated / manual test cases to encompass the Acceptance Criteria in a User Story.
• Logging defects detected by your test case and coordinating prioritization with Product.
• Performing smoke tests on environments following deployments.
• Writing clear, concise and comprehensive Release test plans.
• Aggregating appropriate automated test scripts to be executed as part of the Test Set for a release.
• Calling out test environment stability issues and outages.

Required Skills: Hybrid position in Raleigh, NC or Westlake, TX API, Automation, JavaScript, QA, Java Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Background Check: Yes Drug Screen: Yes Notes: Hybrid Position 3days/month In Raleigh, NC or Westlake, TX SOW Upon offer, client requires 5 years of W2s for US projects (where applicable) to validate consultant's work history. It is required to show consultants W2 take home pay in the Exh A.