Software Test Engineer- Senior

Description

• Coordinate testing activities with other analysts within or external to his/her project
• Maintains skill set and awareness of test automation industry standards
• Works closely with the leadership across functional domains to provide communication to all team members of relevant information, including schedules, process, organizational issues, etc.
• Create defect reports with detailed steps, environmental conditions, and other details as needed to reliably reproduce the issue
• Helps guide and improve process initiatives
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Coordinates and delegates tasks to team members towards a common goal
• Owns the design, creation, implementation and maintenance of test automation framework and departmental tools
• Mentors, motivates, and inspires team members
• Ensures compliance with departmental standards
• Provides feedback for staff evaluations
• Assists/consults/guides development staff in the creation of unit and integration testing
• Assists management with staffing needs
• Provide technical leadership for challenging issues
• Creates test strategies, plans, and cases for the applications under his/her control
• Assure traceability of requirements between test cases and product features
• Proactively seeks to improve product testability
• Propose, define and implement processes and standards for test automation.
• Conduct QA code reviews and perform code inspections leading to optimizations.
• Identifies gaps in testing and works diligently at filling those gaps
• Assess and suggest department-wide initiatives for improving the efficiency of software testing.
• Provides strategic vision and focus for the automation framework and tool development
• Perform manual testing and other duties as required
• May conduct process audits of other teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field from an accredited university is required or has acquired core software test engineering skills and knowledge via practical experience
• Typically has 4+ years experience in a Software Test Engineer role as part of a software development organization; and 4+ years of writing test automation scripts with deep knowledge in one or more languages doing Functional and API testing (JavaScript, Java, Ruby)
• Expert knowledge of automated testing frameworks and coding standards/best practices
• Experience writing performance automation scripts
• Expert at manual testing concepts, techniques and best practices
• Deep knowledge of SQL
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player with the ability to work collaboratively as well as individually
• Demonstrates mastery of the fundamental tools and concepts of software quality assurance

• Experience working with Protractor / SuperTest / Selenium Webdriver
• Experience working with Cucumber / Capybara / RSpecJasmine / MochaGit version control system
• Mocking API calls and test data
• Performance/load testing experience
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working with cloud computing services such as AWS