Quality Assurance Engineer

Job title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Cleveland, OH

Duration: 6 months + Possible Extension

Top 3 things to look at when reviewing resumes.

• Detail Oriented highly organized, very conscientious, takes great pride in the quality of work, strong in critical thinking documentation of and managing test case definition, executions, ability to learn and comprehend varying system-to-system connectivity requirements
• Seasoned Quality Assurance / QA testing experience in large projects and on mature applications with many integrations, the type of candidate that is a leader not only learns, performs, but also improves and teaches/enables others, strong communication skills, and easy to understand / easy to work with
• Excellent Communicator and Technically strong ability to dig in and manage through Postman/SOAP UI API endpoint validation testing, works well directly with software developers and engineers, passion/interest in experience in actual scripting/test automation screen scraping tools, Selenium

Quality Assurance Engineer IT

• Coordinates all the planning, execution, and recap functions involved in testing and injecting quality safeguards into the development and deployment of software applications.
• This individual may direct other QA professionals or serve as the sole resource on a project.
• They are responsible for fostering collaboration and cooperation with the greater project team in the pursuit of delivering a high-quality product.

Job DescriptioA n

• Quality Assurance Engineer IT coordinates ale planning, execution, and recap functions involved in testing implementing quality safeguards during the development and deployment of software applications.
• This individual may direct other QA professionals or may be the sole resource in an effort.
• They are responsible for fostering collaboration and cooperation with the greater project team in the pursuit of delivering a high-quality product.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

System integration testing

• Regular regression testing of system functions -Collaboration with multiple different engineers, testers, and Quality Assurance teams, both inside and outside the department

Test Data harvesting and management

• Detailed organization and management of disparate systems that interface or have various complex timing, data dependencies, or batch executions
• Ability to translate design, UX, and requirements into actionable test cases that can be executed, document how to execute them, prerequisites and test conditions
• Ability to define and mock up both positive and negative scenarios, as well as work on edge case testing
• Ability to work well in fast passed environment
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to estimate efforts, inclusive of unknowns and ambiguities.ty Leads the QA team for a project and is responsible for all activities conducted to ensure quality.
• Oversee the quality in all phases of the project, including Requirement review, test script preparation, and test execution and recap.
• Identifies gaps and confusions in the user interface and/or the workflow, etc, and highlights to the project team the risks associated with technical debt, schedule slippage, or other areas of concern.
• Schedules resources, estimates QAS portion of project estimates and forecasts, manages testing needs with Shared Services, manages the PLC tollgates, calculates and manages traceability and test coverage, assists with test result triage, reports on overall application/project health, and intercedes, when appropriate, with remediation efforts.
• Creates a collaborative partnership with the Tech Lead, the PM, the BAs, and other project participants and actively engages in grooming sessions, status meetings, and other project meetings. Highly valued as a thought leader contributing to the final product.
• Manage human capital for a specific effort.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.

Experience:

• Moderate quality assurance experience with solid organizational skills and a basic knowledge of quality assurance practices and methods.
• Understands the test automation coverage and guides exploratory testers to fill the gaps.
• Base understanding of an application domain, the release schedule, and the user community, and can work with the other members of the project team to drive delivery.
• Understands how to assess an application's functionality by risk, impact, and importance to prioritize the test execution and concentrate test coverage appropriately.
• Test Automation Selenium / WebDriver, io scripting experience a plus
• 3 to 5 years or more in QA testing role(s) preferred
• Experience inan Agile team

Competencies and Skills:

• Able to leverage the resources available to them to identify the opportunities for automation, service virtualization, and other shared services offered by QA.
• Good communication skills.
• Able to lead in all phases of the project and can communicate with others in the organization about the status and risks of the effort in detail.
• Highly proficient in Jira or other similar tools like AzureDevOpss
• Experience with XRAY (Jira test case tool) is a plus.
• Experience with requirements tracked in Confluence
• Schedules resources, estimates QAS portion of project estimates and forecasts, manages testing needs with Shared Services, manages the PLC tollgates, calculates and manages traceability and test coverage, assists with test result triage, reports on overall application/project health, and intercedes, when appropriate, with remediation efforts.
• Creates a collaborative partnership with the Tech Lead, the PM, the BAss and other project participants and actively engages in grooming sessions, statumeetingstgs and other project meetings. Highly valued as a thought leader contributing to the final product.
• Manage the human capital for a specific effort.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS



Education/Certifications :
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.



Experience:
Moderate quality assurance experience with solid organizational skills and a basknowledge e of quality assurance practices and methods.
Understands the test automation coverage and guides exploratory testers to fill the gaps.
Base understanding of an application domain, the release schedule, and the user community, and can work with the other members of the project team to drive delivery.
Understands how to assess an application's functionality by risk, impact, and importance to prioritize the test execution and concentrate test coverage appropriately.
-Test Automation Selenium / WebDriver, io sIoipting experience a plus
-3 to 5 years or more in QA testing role(s) preferred
-Experience inan Agile team



Competencies and Skills:
Able to leverage the resources available to them to identify the opportunities for automation, service virtualization, and other shared services offered by QA.
Good communication skills.
Able to lead in all phases of the project and can communicate with others in the organization about the status and risks of the effort in detail.
-Highly proficient in Jira or other similar tools like AzureDevOps
-Experience with XRAY (Jira test case tool) is a plus.
-Experience with requirements tracked in Confluence