Senior Software QA Engineer

What you will do:

Independently develop scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks for testing software solutions.

Specify and automate test scenarios and test data for a highly complex business by analyzing integration points, data flows, personas, authorization schemes and environments

Develop regression suites, develop automation scenarios, and move automation to an agile continuous testing model.

Pro-actively and collaboratively taking part in all testing related activities while establishing partnerships with key stakeholders in Product, Development/Engineering, and Technology Operations.

What experience you need:

Bachelor's degree in a STEM major or equivalent experience

5-7 years of software testing experience

Able to create and review test automation according to specifications

Ability to write, debug, and troubleshoot code in Java, Springboot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Creation and use of big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others with respect to software validation

Created test strategies and plans

Led complex testing efforts or projects

Participated in Sprint Planning as the Test Lead

Collaborated with Product Owners, SREs, Technical Architects to define testing strategies and plans.

Design and development of micro services using Java, Springboot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubeneties

Deploy and release software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

What could set you apart:

An ability to demonstrate successful performance of our Success Profile skills, including:

Attention to Detail - Define test case candidates for automation that are outside of product specifications. i.e. Negative Testing; Create thorough and accurate documentation of all work including status updates to summarize project highlights; validating that processes operate properly and conform to standards

Automation - Automate defined test cases and test suites per project

Collaboration - Collaborate with Product Owners and development team to plan and and assist with user acceptance testing; Collaborate with product owners, development leads and architects on functional and non-functional test strategies and plans

Execution - Develop scalable and reliable automated tests; Develop performance testing scripts to assure products are adhering to the documented SLO/SLI/SLAs; Specify the need for Test Data types for automated testing; Create automated tests and tests data for projects; Develop automated regression suites; Integrate automated regression tests into the CI/CD pipeline; Work with teams on E2E testing strategies and plans against multiple product integration points

Quality Control - Perform defect analysis, in-depth technical root cause analysis, identifying trends and recommendations to resolve complex functional issues and process improvements; Analyzes results of functional and non-functional tests and make recommendation for improvements; Performance / Resilience: Understanding application and network architecture as inputs to create performance and resilience test strategies and plans for each product and platform. Conducting the performance and resilience testing to ensure the products meet SLAs / SLOs

Quality Focus - Review test cases for complete functional coverage; Review quality section of Production Readiness Review for completeness; Recommend changes to existing testing methodologies for effectiveness and efficiency of product validation; Ensure communications are thorough and accurate for all work documentation including status and project updates

Risk Mitigation - Work with Product Owners, QE and development team leads to track and determine prioritization of defects fixes