Summary/Objective

The QA Engineer plays a key role in quality assurance and quality control of the products and services through performing both manual and automated testing. The QA Engineer is also responsible for creating test-automation framework from scratch, creating new features and improvements of the existing automated testing frameworks, developing and executing automated tests and maintaining CI / CD /CT pipeline, as well as reviewing automated testing results, performing functional, regression and performance testing. The QA Engineer will work on multiple projects, in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Essential Functions/ Responsibilities

• Investigate the use of a software as a service (SaaS) platform and how it provides solutions to a diverse range of clients, and provide data-driven automated tests to strive for 100% code coverage

• Work with talented developers from diverse backgrounds, continually learning, and applying best practices to test development.
• Drive quality across the team, build easy-to-use test frameworks and influence developers to move towards test-driven development.
• Make an impact on the engineering team's automated delivery pipeline, translating to improved levels of quality and shortened delivery cycles.
• Continually learn new technologies, to apply behavioral-driven, test-driven, and data-driven automated testing methodologies.
• Cover testing scope including unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.

• Facilitate organizational growth, with career opportunities.

Supervisory Responsibility

This role will report to Manager, QA, or other Managers depending on the need of the company. This role does not have any managerial duties.

Education and Experience

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science or Engineering from a leading University.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms and data structures.
• Proficient in one of the following: Java, JavaScript, Python, as well as SQL.
• 2+ years hands-on experience writing end-to-end tests in a front-end test framework: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Jest, Puppeteer, Mocha+Chai, Jasmine, Jmeter, Postman
• Hands-on experience writing unit tests using one of: jUnit 3/4/5
• Working understanding of relational database and No-SQL database concepts.
• Exceptional communication skills; strong writing and speaking ability.

• Basic knowledge of QA roles/responsibility within Agile Methodology is a requisite.
• Ability to detect issues, solve bottlenecks and deliver results in a fast paced environment.

Preferred

• Experience testing RESTful services in NodeJS,
• Docker containerization, Kubernetes
• Apache, Nginx, Tomcat 8.x
• Database experience with Oracle 11g and PL/SQL
• NoSQL experience with one of InfluxDB, Mongo
• Mobile testing targeting Android / iOS
• Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ, WebStorm, UIivision
• GIT, or similar distributed source control with Mercurial, Subversion, etc.
• Familiarity with Linux or BSD

Salary Range $74k-90K

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers and smartphones.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may be required to life up to 25 lbs.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday during normal business hours. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

10-15% travel to customer sites may be required based upon project needs.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.