QA Engineer

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_Role Description

Accountable for performing manual and automated testing of applications supporting business

objectives while demonstrating independence in project analysis.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the quality and thoroughness of the application being released.
• Perform analysis for the purposes of developing test cases for websites, web applications,

and infrastructure.

• Responsible for scripting automated User Interface tests, and ensure they are kept

accurate and successful.

• Execute hands-on manual testing while scripting automated tests to ensure application

quality.

• Serve as a liaison to business analyst and product owner, providing feedback on

application readiness for migrations.

Skills and Knowledge

• Skilled at scripting automated regression tests, using tools such as Selenium, WebDriver,

and JMeter.

• Technically familiar with development concepts and formats such as Sql, Xml, Json and

scripting languages.

• Provide input in prioritizing, estimating, and defining acceptance criteria
• Clearly define test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures
• Provide usability and functionality feedback to developers
• Interact with customers on issues and provide recommendations
• Ability to build automated test scripts
• Plan tests and strategies according to the project
• Thorough and disciplined, ability to analyze a problem and weight severity of the issue.
• Dedicated worker skilled at collaborating in a team setting.

Experience

• Bachelor’s in computer science, or related field or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of experience in software development industry, participating in team

environment

• 3-5 years of experience in automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver Experience in

automation testing using Selenium and/or WebDriver with C# or Java.

• 3-5 years of experience in testing web servies such as RESTful API.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills.
• Ability to learn and adapt to continuously changing technology.
• Familiarity with Atlassian Jira and Confluence as well as Zephyr.
• Familiarity with Agile [Scrum]