Senior Test Engineer

ore Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Work on complex and highly visible program supporting multiple sub-programs
• Develop testing strategy that included infrastructure, quality standard, processes, communication plan and execution
• Mentor a diverse team of analysts, engineers and partner organization participants in quality assurance frameworks and strategy
• Lead the DevOps testing strategy, working closely with Development, Product, and Operations
• Create and maintain reusable testing components, regression testing, code, and DevOps release quality controls
• Develop system test plans for large scale application implementation.
• Ability to refactor and simplify test automation in large scale test suites
• Define test objectives and test cases at all levels of testing, which may include regression testing, integration testing, end to end testing, UAT testing, and performance testing.
• Participate as part of an Agile team, attending scrum calls and assisting the team in the definition of test requirements.
• Produce testing status reports for system changes and identify project & program risks based upon test results.
• Responsible for testing automation and integrating automation into test suites.
• Write, revise, and verify quality assurance standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation.
• Review, evaluate, and approve test results from testing performed by other teams.
• Writes documentation and reports status to management on program testing and any associated risks.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• 8+ years of hands-on testing and automation experience with Selenium WebDriver or similar (i.e. Robot Framework) and/or software development experience in any language (i.e. Python, Java, etc.,)
• 2+ years of CI/CD pipeline experience (i.e. setting automation suite in deployment pipeline, constantly tweaking for optimal value and user-friendly test reports)
• 3+ years of hands-on testing of REST APIs (i.e. verifying HTTP status code and JSON response body using POSTMAN); bonus if experience includes automation
• 4+ years of hands-on SQL database experience (i.e. insert/update statements for data setup, delete/update statements for data teardown, select statements with simple joins for data verification)
• Attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills are critical.
• Proficiency working on a large-scale modernization effort where parallel run results between legacy and modernized system are evaluated is desired.
• Proficiency with reviewing requirements and developing test plans
• Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced start-up like environment
• The ability to work as a team player is essential
• Decision maker who takes initiative and has the ability to drive the scrum and QA processes
• A four-year degree in a technical field is preferred.
• Expert in Test Automation, Test management, QA, QA processes and UAT
• Proficiency in the Agile / SAFe software development life cycle
• Strong understanding of cloud-based application and testing virtual implementations
• Track record of delivering testing projects with quality on schedule and within budget