Technical QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

What will you contribute?

Reporting to the [Manager Role Name], the [Role Name] creates and executes product test plans to ensure software products meet design specifications and product quality standards. Assists Development team with process improvements to improve product quality.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Your deliverables as a [Role Name] will include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Create test cases from product specifications.
• Executes test plans and test cases and compiles results.
• Sets up and maintains personal testing environments. May set up team testing environments.
• Assist in the review of software development processes to improve product quality.
• Tracks defects from detection to resolution and works with developers to reproduce and resolve defects.
• Communicates with stakeholders on product issues.
• Acquires and maintains knowledge of existing products, operations or systems.
• Reviews product documentation to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Provides support to stakeholders prior to GA release of software.
• Create and/or run SQL scripts to populate data and validate test results.
• Design, develop, and maintain test scripts to be automated.
• Provide testing effort estimates for enhancements.

Required Experience:
• [X] years’ experience in software testing or related field.
• Experience in the software or financial industry preferred.
• Experience with relational databases preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills; effective customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of quality assurance methods and techniques including the software development lifecycle.
• Effective planning and organizational skills, with an attention to detail.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to think ‘out of the box’ for process improvements.
• Ability to work with specialized software tools; effectively implement and evaluate new processes or plans.
• Ability to execute test plans and test scripts for commercial software applications, document expected results vs. actual results, and record software defects.
• Preferred knowledge of automated testing software tools with ability to design and develop automated testing programs.
• Preferred knowledge of the Agile software development methodology