Sr. Quality Engineer

Job Description

The Quality Engineer III for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) supports quality assurance programs and processes in alignment with QA strategy and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment with minimal guidance. The Quality Engineer III is responsible for providing feedback on artifacts developed during requirements and analysis phase within client projects; authoring test cases/scripts; and performing test execution for both project and support related activities. The Quality Engineer III is expected to leverage technical expertise to develop maintain and execute automation tests. As well, the Quality Engineer III should help identify opportunities to improve application code quality by increasing unit and integration test coverage.

Key Responsibilities
• Effectively work in a fast paced environment utilizing the Agile methodology
• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices
• Execute test scripts to validate correct functionality of application
• Use SQL for back-end database validation
• Perform various types of testing including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing as needed
• Participate in requirement & design review sessions; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality test automation standpoint
• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis
• Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality
• Coordinate test script reviews with stakeholders as appropriate.
• Adhere to requirement review, defect writing & test script writing guidelines
• Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions
• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with project team.
• Multi-task to meet assignment deadlines
• Accurately estimate work assignments
• Show assertiveness
• Identify obstacles and roadblocks; and offer suggestions to work around obstacles
• Help drive and improve QA process within the team you are assigned

Required Skills : Web service automated testing, service oriented architecture, Java programming • 8+ years of QA experience • Experience working with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab etc.) • Experience with QA processes and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment • Proficient in defect tracking and analyzing root cause utilizing tools ( Jira , Rally etc.) • Strong understanding of automation and performance concepts and approaches . • Experience working with or on remote teams • Understand and utilize risk based testing technique • Experience in test environment and test data management
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
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