Engineer

Description:

• Collaborate with the development team in reviews of technical specifications and program code with an emphasis on testability.

• Analyze the requirements and help with defining the acceptance criteria for the features that are being developed.

• Work closely with the Product team to understand their expectations of how a feature would function.

• Decompose user stories/requirements to identify what tests need to be created and automated across the full solution stack (business logic, contract, journey, accessibility, visual, performance).

• Work in tandem with the developers to automate tests for the full solution stack (business logic, contract, journey, accessibility, visual, performance).

• Work with the development and operations teams to debug testing failures.

• Actively monitor post-release metrics to identify any defects that may have slipped through the cracks.

• Write tests that expose the defect before any fix is attempted.

• Evaluate existing testing methodologies and suggest new techniques that will help deliver high-quality features faster.

• Improve, maintain, and execute automated testing across the full solution stack.

• Maintain a solid understanding of QA workflows and test automation best practices.

• Maintain proficiency in application and use of systems, tools, and processes.

• 5+ years of experience required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant field of study preferred.
• Strong Quality Assurance acumen
• Working knowledge of Agile processes.
• Experience decomposing user stories/requirements to create automated tests.
• Experience writing code in programming languages.
• Experience automating tests for the full solution stack (business logic, contract, journey, accessibility, visual, performance).
• Experience in developing automated tests for APIs (Web Services [REST and SOAP]).
• Experience using frameworks and tools like Junit/TestNG (Java), (Java Script), Postman, SoapUI Pro, Selenium RC/WebDriver, UFT, Cypress is preferred.
• Experience in delivering test automation at the unit, business logic, and integration level testing.
• Experience building and writing code with unit level tests for web applications and/or services/APIs.
• Working knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous integration and continuous deployment concepts (CI - CD), and test suite development and maintenance.
• Working knowledge of application software development lifecycle concepts and test environment and configuration management concepts.
• Ability to critique work of self and others constructively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Enthusiastic and energetic with an inherent curiosity to break code.