Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Assurance Engineers are responsible for ensuring the quality of newly developed and enhanced software solutions through comprehensive manual and automation testing. They collaborate with cross-functional teams on diverse projects, leveraging critical thinking and problem-solving skills from requirements analysis to development and support. Working closely with leadership, they understand project timelines and requirements, ensuring best practices, adherence to software standards, and sound technical decisions are implemented to meet both functional and non-functional software requirements.

Must Have

• Champion department initiatives and values.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis and requirements.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis.
• Communicate professionally with coworkers and external customers.
• Mentor quality assurance engineers on testing principles.
• Understand functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Develop and enhance test infrastructure and continuous integration framework.
• Determine and promote testing best practices.
• Develop and execute maintainable automation tests.
• Integrate project testing with continuous-integration process.
• Diagnose bugs and formulate solutions with team members.
• Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
• Manage test plans and testing methodology for software projects.
• Use test automation techniques (data driven, pairwise, mocking, test hooks).
• Participate in internal and external technical reviews.
• Serve as a testing and domain expert for workforce management.
• 6 to 8 years’ experience with software testing.
• Experience with manual and automation testing of enterprise applications.
• Experience with Java, Typescript, Javascript.
• Experience with SQL query writing.
• Experience with WDIO/Selenium web driver.
• Experience with testing web applications and micro services.
• Experience in API testing and automation using tools.

Good to Have

• Knowledge on performance testing using tools such as JMeter, Redline13.
• Experience in Performance Testing using JMeter, Redline13.

Job Description

Overview

Senior Quality Assurance Engineers are responsible for assuring quality of newly developed/enhanced software solutions through manual and automation testing. From requirements analysis and design to development and support, the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will work together with a team on diverse projects utilizing knowledge of critical thinking and problem solving.

A Senior Quality Assurance works tightly with their leadership in understand requirements and project timelines. Working with Quality Assurance Engineers to ensure best practices, adherence to software standards and sound technical decisions are made and implemented towards ensuring that software meets functional and nonfunctional requirements.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Be a champion for department initiatives and values ensuring all actions promote the department’s mission statement
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Communicate in a professional manner when interacting with coworkers and external customers
• Mentor quality assurance engineers on testing principles and practices and be resourceful
• Work with developers, product manager, architects and others to understand functional and nonfunctional requirements and ensure software product meets those requirements
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams.
• Determine testing best practices and principals and promote them across the organization.
• Serve as an expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
• Integrate project testing with continuous-integration process.
• Work with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
• Serve as an expert in the quality engineering, manage test plans and testing methodology for software projects.
• Use test automation techniques (data driven, pairwise, mocking, test hooks) that fit the problem space. Understand designing and coding for testability to produce quality code with the lowest cost.
• Participate in internal and external technical reviews, as required
• Serve as a testing and domain expert for workforce management.

Skills Required

• Excellent time management, resource organization and priority establishment skills, and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and across teams
• Can work quickly and efficiently with moderate supervision
• Demonstrated skills and abilities needed to coordinate, facilitate, and participate in a collaborative approach to the completion of tasks or assignments
• Robust understanding of SOLID design principals
• Strong Object-Oriented design and implementation skills using languages such as Java, Typescript, Javascript.
• Ability to develop test automation framework using in WDIO, Selenium using BDD methodology
• Experience in Database testing using SQL queries.
• Experience in API testing using tools such as Ready API, Rest Assured etc.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise computing software, including system management standards and solutions
• Knowledge on source code management tools such as Github, Gitlab etc.
• Understanding of NuGet package management including creation, deployment and version management
• Nice to have knowledge on performance testing using tools such as JMeter, Redline13 etc.
• Have HEART. To work here, you must be:
• 6 to 8 years’ experience with software testing post BE/B.Tech, ME/M.Tech or MCA
• Must have experience with manual and automation testing of enterprise applications with web user interface and web services
• Must have experience with Java/Typescript/Javascript
• Must have experience with SQL query writing
• Must have experience with WDIO/Selenium web driver
• Must have experience with testing web applications and micro services
• Must have experience in API testing and automation using tools.
• Nice to have experience in Performance Testing using JMeter, Redline13 etc.
• Passionate about technology and application development