Middle QA Engineer

What's the Project?

Newfire is seeking a Senior MQA Engineer.

Our client is dedicated to helping students and colleges make informed choices because let's face it, navigating your educational path can feel overwhelming. They believe in making that process easier, faster, and way more accessible for everyone involved.

The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for designing and executing overall testing strategy including performance testing activities for a broad range of applications and platforms. This individual will drive overall testing strategy with the proper mix of business knowledge and technical leadership. Planning activities involve working closely with architects and technical leads to define the long-term strategy for repeatable and scalable performance testing activities within the organization. Duties also include creating quality standards for products and testing systems for efficiency, reliability and performance.

You Perfectly Match If you have:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline, or its equivalent plus 2 years of related experience. Alternatively, will accept a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus 5 years related experience, in lieu of a master's degree.
• 7+ years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing is a must.
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment on multiple projects.
• Knowledge of Agile and JIRA a must.
• Experience and understanding of accessibility testing and performance testing is a must.
• Experience in mobile testing is a must.
• Experience in SQL scripting relational databases, Unit testing of Web applications
• Excellent understanding of DB and behavior driven testing is required for this role.
• Experience in working with software specifications and documentation.
• Breaking the system and thinking out of the box while doing functional testing is a must.
• Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and release is a must.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
• Understanding of QA automation tools such as Selenium, Ghost Inspector.
• Should have worked in an onsite offshore model.
• Should understand selenium tests and cucumber feature files and should be able to understand system and console logs.
• Experience with continuous integration environment such as Jenkins or Travis.

Your day-to-day activities:

• Organize and manage test design and implementation tasks on a project.
• Participate in requirements discussions and identify requirements that may be missing, wrong, or lack clarity.
• Develop and execute tests for end-to-end scenarios, reported customer facing issues, and other externally initiated sources.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for integration runs.
• Develop and implement test execution strategy for mobile testing.
• Conduct and report on analysis of test results and coverage factors.
• Ensure proper communication occurs with the project teams on test status, issues and risk to deployment.
• Work with development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.
• Ensure test cases are appropriately structured for automation execution when applicable.
• Work with automation to incorporate new functionality into the automation test suite.
• Provide guidance to Associate Engineers to execute test sets assigned to them, develop their own, and effective defect reporting.
• Develop and implement test execution strategy for 508 compliance (accessibility testing).
• Develop and implement test execution strategy for non-functional requirements.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• MQA : 7 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)