Job Description
The Quality Assurance Engineer will work closely with the Development team to build a deep understanding of our applications. As part of the Quality team, you will participate in the Agile process, helping to refine requirements, estimate stories, define acceptance criteria, validate stories, and file bugs as necessary. We have ambitions to expand our automation coverage, so while this position doesn't require experience writing test automation, we are looking for an individual who either has a little experience with automation or who would like to grow that skillset but who hasn't had the chance yet. Some words that might describe you: are savvy, driven, enthusiastic, positive, pragmatic, collaborative, accountable, meticulous, and precise.
What You’ll Do
- Use your analytical and testing skills to turn requirements into test cases
- Write, revise, and own QA test plans
- Log, track and verify resolutions of requirements and software defects
- Derive and produce test estimates
- Help define acceptance criteria and validate new work meets the requirements
- Maintain test data sets
- Write automated test cases or have interest in developing the skills to develop test automation
- Continuously look for holes in test coverage and improve confidence in our test suites
- Work closely with the Development team to help release new features and defect fixes
- Collaborate with the rest of the team defining process, templates and standards to help improve the QA process
- Manually test our software and integrations, as our customers would, to validate positive and negative flows and ensure a pleasant UX experience
- Collaborate with QA Automation Lead to help improve our automated test suites
- Be an active participant in our agile process
- Drive to results
- Proactively identify opportunities and take initiative
- Speak up when you have something to say
What We’re Looking For
- 2+ years of experience in software quality assurance utilizing both waterfall and agile development/scrum methodologies
- Exposure to any programming or scripting language
- Demonstrated ability to execute and improve upon existing QA processes
- Experience with QA testing for enterprise level software (both in-house and SaaS)
- Demonstrated experience using various QA testing tools, including Jira, HP Quality Center and other best in class solutions
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Have a little experience with test automation, or the desire to learn
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