Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description

Overview:

We are currently looking for a Software QA Engineer to help provide and maintain a high-quality product through executing various test strategies. This candidate will be responsible for Quality Assurance across front-end, API and database platforms. In this role, you will assist with creating test plans, functional testing, load testing, track defects, and report results. The ideal candidate should have experience of troubleshooting and testing GUI and API driven applications.

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plans, cases, scenarios, and scripts to thoroughly test internal & external application changes and new products.
• Analyze and troubleshoot erroneous results, determine the root causes, and suggest a solution.
• Conduct manual regression testing of applications on a scheduled basis to ensure product integrity.
• Work closely with software development team (Technical Product Owners, Engineers, Scrum Masters, Architects and Delivery Managers) to ensure timely and effective testing effort.
• Participate on Agile Scrum teams to understand and influence software requirements to build effective test plans and improve end-product usability.
• Act as testing lead on projects requiring multiple software testing resources.
• Identify and track testing issues in change tracking tool(s) to resolve software defects and issues.
• Identify, define, and implement testing process and procedure improvements to continuously enhance product and process quality using a Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment framework (CI/CD).
• Train and mentor new software testers and other project stakeholders on testing processes, procedures, and framework.
• Participate in other testing and process improvement projects, as needed. Other duties as assigned.
• Conduct automated regression testing using in-house or purchased third party Automated Test tools using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Qualifications:

• 4 Year Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent.
• 5+ years of software testing experience in quality engineering, quality assurance or a similar role.
• Bamboo experience preferred
• Github experience required
• Oracle experience required
• Hadoop experience preferred
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to troubleshoot problems and find root causes.
• HealthCare experience pertaining to Medical Claims processing is preferred.
• SAFe® for Teams Preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to think “outside of the box”.