Quality Assurance Engineer
Position Summary
Are you a problem solver with a desire to develop, automate and test? We’re in need of a creative and passionate Quality Assurance Engineer on a high performing agile software development team. You’ll work with a dynamic team comprising of Quality Engineers, Developers, Business System Analysts, and Software Project Managers and report to the Product Engineering Manager. You’ll be asked to test software using an automation framework, create reports, perform software analysis, perform functional, regression and performance testing, apply black box and white box testing techniques and become a subject matter expert in your teams’ owned applications. You will also be asked to lead the testing automation best practices group and work to enhance and expand the testing frameworks and tools.
Responsibilities
- Create, review and execute feature test cases within the automation framework (Selenium with Gauge framework in Java)
- Collaborate with developers and quality engineers to enhance regression coverage and maintain the automated regression suite
- Create, enhance, maintain testing utilities as needed
- Review, create and execute manual test cases
- Create defects and keep the storyboard up to date
- Establish and follow industry standard automation testing methodology
- Identify process improvements, conduct gap and root-cause analysis, and make recommendations for efficiency to peers and management.
- Actively participate in Agile development, testing and CI/CD methodologies
Qualifications
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology experience
- 2+ years minimum software development
- 3+ years programmatic integration with relational database systems (SQL Server)
- Experience in automation of web service APIs (REST/SOAP)
- Experience in automation of web, mobile device, localization, accessibility and security
- Experience in creating and socializing QA and Automation best practices
- Experience performing software evaluations and proof of concept activities
- Experience in CI/CD environment (TeamCity)
- 3+ years Agile experience
- Ability to test front end and back-end solutions
- Experience in running Test Strategy reviews
- Experience in performing code and test case reviews
- Experience with test-driven development
- Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
- Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
- Must have strong time management skills - including ability to plan, set priorities, adapt to change, work well under pressure, and meet established timelines
- Must have a positive and energetic demeanor
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Experience with Splunk monitoring
- Experience with New Relic Synthetics & Insights
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology experience
- 2+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of programmatic integration with relational database systems, specifically SQL Server
- Experience automating web service APIs, including REST and SOAP
- Experience automating web, mobile device, localization, accessibility, and security testing
- Experience creating and socializing QA and automation best practices
- Experience performing software evaluations and proof-of-concept activities
- Experience in a CI/CD environment, specifically TeamCity
- 3+ years of Agile experience
- Ability to test front-end and back-end solutions
- Experience conducting Test Strategy reviews
- Experience performing code and test case reviews
- Experience with test-driven development
- Ability and desire to learn multiple development languages, applications, and tools
- Ability to quickly learn new processes, tools, business domains, and technical applications
- Strong time management, prioritization, adaptability, and deadline management skills
- Positive and energetic demeanor
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Experience with Splunk monitoring
- Experience with New Relic Synthetics and Insights
What We Do
We are the world’s learning company with more than 22,500 employees operating in 70 countries. We provide content, assessment and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are committed to helping equip learners with the skills they need to enhance their employability prospects and to succeed in the changing world of work. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.
