Senior Engineer QA - Boston

Duration: 6 months

Job Description:

• Develop and drive strategies and implementation of Software Quality Engineering best practices
• Assess and define automation approaches, frameworks and tools appropriate for the product sets
• Provide guidance, mentorship and training for other team members
• Work with other team members in driving quality goals and initiatives
• Communicate with management team on quality initiatives, strategies and results
• Lead a team successfully and work well with other departments
• Contribute to the development of other team members
• Facilitates troubleshooting and solves problems
• Understands and implements, at a team level, practices developed by the Engineering Leadership team
• Understands when to execute a SQL trace to capture stored procedure execution/duration and read/writes
• Ensures highly complex testing on projects utilizing Practice Area guidelines such as, understanding API/Web Services testing and understanding when to write test harnesses using web services technologies and is able to disseminate this information to team members
• Leads, plans, schedules and implements testing for projects, defines test objectives, writes manual test scenarios
• Formulates test plans including systems analysis, risk analysis, dependency analysis, writing and plotting test strategies, and determines how to report defects (pre/post- production)
• Investigates and reports project issues by communicating and working with various departments including: Development, Product, Project Management, as well as other project teams
• Provides training and mentoring to Software Quality Engineers
• Analyzes and ensures requirements/User Story acceptance criteria are acceptable for test case creation
• Executes manual and automated test cases, as well as performs back end data validation
• Tracks test progress and results in test management tools like Jira, Quality Center, or similar tools
• Identifies opportunities, then leads the roll out of inventive tech ideas and implements solutions with other projects teams, the SQE department, as well as other departments
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills:

• Has demonstrated planning and resource scheduling skills.
• Strong practical QA principles and practices foundation including test strategy, planning, execution and automation
• Strong working understanding and implementation practice of software development life-cycle and testing tools
• Familiarity with automated testing tools (HP LoadRunner, QuickTest Pro, Selenium)
• Ability to define, organize, implement, and execute testing processes within the test team
• Ability to identify, recommend and implement mitigation strategies to keep project work on track
• Ability to lead deep dives after iteration planning and hold team accountable for deliverables
• Ability to monitor QA work and escalate issues when appropriate
• Ability to learn and actively seek new skills and knowledge to keep up with the changing technology field, including bringing any new ideas to the SQE department
• Ability to think outside the box, adapt to circumstances, learn from co-workers, and share information and experiences
• Excellent leadership skills
• Ability to work independently and mostly in a team based environment
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment
• Ability to work under pressure and in high stress situations
• Advanced experience using estimation practices related to task durations to meet schedules in an agile software development environment
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to any given situation
• Ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently
• Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to make timely and sound decisions
• Detail oriented
• Must be self-motivated
• Able to research root causes around customer facing incidents
• Validate defects and triage defects for the release
• Understanding of Coding Fundamentals (variable declaration, program flow, functions, error handling, etc)
• Understanding of Web Services (SOAP, REST)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a minimum of five years of related experience.
• Some experience at a senior or lead level.
• Experienced with engineering MVC, MVP, and MVVM Client side JavaScript frameworks such as Angular;
• Experience or knowledge in: HTML; XML; Java; JavaScript; SQL/TSQL, stored procedures, DB Tracing, DB profiling/SQL Profiler, impact analysis, DB sharding; AJAX, JSON, XPath, NoSQL.