QA & Testing Senior

On a day-to-day basis, the ideal candidate will be:

• Comfortable working in an agile process (scrum)

• Directly responsible for interfacing with product owners and software engineers to elaborate new (and updated) features to ensure features are testable

• Directly responsible for performing functional testing of new features

• Directly responsible for automating functional tests

• Directly responsible for performing regression tests

• Comfortable and effective partnering with frontend team members to ensure new designs lend to testing automation

• Comfortable and effective partnering with release management teams to prepare release documentation

• Comfortable and effective partnering with backend team members to ensure APIs and database designs lend to testing automation

• Ensure the continued 24x7x365 operations of our portal

Strategically, the ideal candidate will be:

• Responsible for ensuring the overall quality of applications placed onto the portal

• Creating a high degree of automation to allow the team to perform small, frequent releases

• Partnering with business and technical product owners to propose the best path forward to test and automate testing of new features and capabilities

Skills required:

• Solid understanding of Agile practices.  Our company operates scrum teams.  Selected candidate should be comfortable working with standard scrum ceremonies (planning, review, retrospectives, demo, etc.).

• Solid understand of web application architectures.  Strong understanding of REST, web development, and testing.

• Ownership and accountability for all aspects of application testing.

• Strong interpersonal skills, including but not limited to: problem solving, decision making, influencing, change management, negotiation, written and oral communications, ability to work effectively with diverse, distributed groups

• Collaborate effectively with other teams within a corporate ecosystem to successfully integrate new features

•  Java-Selenium, Github or similar, Web Testing, Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Postman, Test Automation, BDD, Cucumber, Saucelabs, and a test case management system like TestRail or Zephyr.

Skills desired:

• Healthcare domain experience

• Ability to provide and receive thoughtful feedback to/from all stakeholders to ensure the team continues to grow

• Ability to be successful in a dynamic work environment

• Ability to learn new tools and technologies when appropriate, make independent decisions, etc.

• Ability to mentor junior engineers

• Cloud computing.  Our company operates a hybrid IT infrastructure.  We run applications in the cloud in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premise in OpenShift.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree