Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

The Allegion Quality Engineering Team is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to collaborate with one of our custom software product portfolios for the COSMOS program and help achieve our mission to create greater satisfaction and trust in Allegion Software. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to lead the Quality efforts for digital products in our custom software portfolio. We are seeking a Quality Engineer who is passionate about the latest Quality methodologies and transfer this knowledge to the team. You will be directly responsible for the overall quality of the team's work and product quality. You will help set strategies for new testing methodologies & processes in alignment with business initiatives. You will also be responsible for developing and enabling the team to execute comprehensive test automation code and test cases for new and existing features of Allegion products. You will consider the needs of the product teams and strive to help the team deliver the highest quality product.

Analysis

• Provides technical leadership at the product team level. Mentor, guide, and provide technical oversight to Junior team members in your area of responsibility.
• Ability to work independently, and manage initiatives to meet schedules in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Skilled at communicating with, presenting to, and influencing internal customers.
• Work closely with product teams and product management to understand requirements and translate them into test cases that capture all test conditions.

Design and Development

• Have expert knowledge of testing concepts, test processes, test design skills, and testing techniques.
• Specific duties and responsibilities include creating, maintaining, and executing test plans and test cases against our software platforms, estimating test efforts, analyzing, and communicating test results, Peer reviews, defect tracking, and participating in day-to-day Quality Engineering Activities.
• Provide enterprise-level guidance on test framework architecture, CI/CD integration, and DevOps principles as related to software testing COTS/custom web solutions.
• Experience in open-source frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Jest), API testing using POSTMAN or similar tools, Testing Grids (BrowserStack), or equivalent.

Architect and Technical Leader

• Collaborate with technical architects, product strategists, business analysts, and others to understand business requirements; Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality in an Agile environment;
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend hardware or software technologies to achieve desired database performance;
• Effective in written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and concepts enabling teams to be successful.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate, negotiate and work with cross-functional teams. Flexibility to work with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to think on your feet, assess problems, and lead others to find well-thought-out solutions.
• Experience with integrated test environments

Desired Skills & Abilities:

• Exposure to Agile environment.
• Prior experience in a global work environment.
• Expert in Open-source test frameworks, Testing grids.
• Exposure to HTML and CSS
• Exposure to NodeJS, Typescript, and JQuery.
• Nice to have: mobile app testing skills, exposure to performing security and performance testing.

Skills and Experience

• Fourteen (14) years of experience in quality engineering.Creating manual test cases, test plans, and test strategies.
• Ten (10) years of experience in using automation tools for developing test scripts.
• Seven (7) years of experience in doing API testing.