Overview:
As a Quality Assurance (QA) Tester, you will be an integral team member who assists the team in ensuring high quality code is delivered to our client. Responsibilities will include testing and verification of code, reporting and recording defects, coordination with architects, functional analysts, and developers on testing and testing results, documenting test scripts, participating in design reviews, user acceptance testing, and deployment activities. This individual will also work in an Agile environment and participate in scrum ceremonies and product planning activities.
Contributions:
- Plan, organize, and implement day to day activities of testing.
- Coordinate with developers, architects, and functional analysts within an agile/scrum environment.
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies & product planning.
- Review and understand user stories and associated acceptance criteria. Write test scripts based on defined and approved user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Execute all phases and types of testing to include user story testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing of a release, and possibly performance testing.
- Document the testing results and coordinate with developers and architects as needed.
- Assist with the building of test strategies & methodologies, automation and site monitoring focused on infrastructure and high availability.
- Understand complex business and functional requirements and provide direction in designing the technical test cases that thoroughly test the tech stack from architectural standpoint and meet the product requirements.
- Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, dependencies or potential issues.
- Work with product, engineering teams in implementing & enforcing quality gates at each stage of the pipeline.
- Proactively identify and communicate risks and opportunities for improvement in testing process or other processes that cross all products and test frameworks.
- Perform manual testing of created functionality and creation of automated test scripts for services-based web applications.
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills and possess 5+ years of experience in quality assurance testing.
- Strong and demonstrated knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, tools, and processes.
- High attention to detail and the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks while successfully meeting deadlines.
- Experience working in a complex engineering environment with prior experience as a quality assurance tester.
- Experience using JIRA or other project management software.
- Automation experience (Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman, Jira)
- Experience in 508 compliance testing
- Experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of quality assurance standards for testing
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably in Information Technology or related field.
- PMP, Scrum Master certification is preferred.
- US Citizen
About steampunk:
Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $90,000 to $130,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.
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