Senior Quality Automation Engineer
Brief description :
Senior Quality Automation Engineer
As a Senior software quality engineer you will be responsible for feature validation, building and
maintaining automated tests and frameworks, and defect tracking. You will provide leadership
and mentorship to other QA engineers, and collaborate with developers, and product managers
to make sure our software meets good quality standards.
Primary Responsibilities
- Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases to ensure adequate testing of development code prior to release to production
- Perform manual and automated test execution
- Design and develop test automation scripts and frameworks
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and agile coaches, being an advocate for quality best practices
- Write easy to understand, yet detailed documentation, defects, test cases, etc.
- Mentor and coach other QA engineers on quality assurance best practices
- Effectively prioritize work when given multiple tasks
Preferred skills
Qualifications
- Great understanding of software quality assurance methodologies and practices, and how to implement them in the software development lifecycle. ISTQB certification is a plus
- Intermediate to Advanced object oriented programming skills, preferably with Python,Java, or Ruby
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Experience building out automated frameworks using testing and CI/CD tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, and Jenkins
- Experience using and developing in UNIX based environments
- Experience with automated testing of RESTful services
- Great attention to detail
- Self-motivated, able to work under minimal supervision
- Experience with software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Zephyr / XRAY, GitHub, etc.
Education & Experience
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years working as a software QA engineer in an agile development environment
- 3+ years writing test automation scripts
