24mo ago

Senior QA Engineer

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EngineeringQa Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

Will be expected to mentor and lead QA Analysts. As Seniot Staff QA you will be responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging issues, performing root-cause analyses,

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EngineeringQa Engineer

Responsibilities

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→Provide input to QA Manager on performance appraisals for all QA analysts.
→Act as a first point of contact for all QA activities. Become the Subject Matter Expert in the area assigned.
→Responsible for mentoring QA Analysts and ensuring best practices and procedures are being followed. Specific activities will include:

→Participates as a team member and/or leads a team executing the following tasks.
→Requirements analysis and decomposition
→Prioritization of test-related tasks
→Writing and executing of Test Cases
→Manual Test Execution
→Data Validation
→Defect Tracking; entry and reporting
→Test Status & Metrics Reporting

→Design and Document test plans for assign products
→Help define test environment (e.g., tools, simulators, etc…)
→Work with automation team to select test cases for automation and maintain a working Test Certification Test Suite
→Acts as advisor to QA Analysts to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems
→Facilitate peer reviews for test plans, test cases, test execution and test metrics.
→Provide estimates and other inputs on the test effort to the Project Manager for test planning purposes
→Assist development in debugging and retesting reported defects as necessary
→During project testing periods on a daily basis provide and post project test metrics to the Project Manager as per the test methodology
→Work with the development team to perform root cause analysis of field reported defects
→Report defects in defect tracking system by providing detailed documentation as proof of test failures for repeatability.
→Recommends new SQA practices and policies to the team and management.
→Recognizes testing and product problems and recommends real world solutions.
→Compare testing metrics to exit criteria to provide SQA advice on product release.

Requirements

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Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or equivalent work experience required.
5 or more years in software quality assurance experience required.
Required experience with

Experience with people and resource management
- Providing team with day to day direction
- Communicating to QA Manager to provide data and metrics regarding project to management as required
Testing Methods
- Functional Testing
- Black Box Testing
Testing Types
- System Testing
- Integration Testing
- Regression Testing
- Compatibility Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
SDLC Models
- Waterfall
- Agile
- Scrum

Preferred experience with

White Box Testing
Process Improvement
Performance Testing
Specialty Software:
VSTS
Other: XML, SQL, IVR

Experience with SQL, PL/SQL, database tools such as Sybase Interactive SQL a plus but not required
Experience with test automation and automation tools preferred but not required.
Experience with test management tools such as MS Azure preferred but not required.
Experience with defect management tools with some experience
Experience in an agile development and Use Case based testing a plus.