SQA Engineer

Softworld, Inc.
Andover, MA
01 Jul 2024

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Job Number: 238059

SQA Engineer

Duration: 6 Months Contract to Hire

Location: Andover, MA (5 remote days per month)

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure that technical specifications are documented, "business friendly", and ultimately implemented within the solution in such a way that they resolve a business need
  • Apply knowledge and experience with technology and application development methodologies to perform basic testing, debugging, and file design
  • Serve as a key resource to the business for all facets of managing technical specifications related to solutions you are assigned to support
  • Knowledge and experience leading meetings, small projects, or Agile SCRUM including the explanation of abstract topics such as data modeling, system design, and software quality assurance
  • Manage production issues and incidents and participate in problem and change management forums.

Competencies

Required to demonstrate progressive experience and responsibility to define, document, and implement Software Development Lifecycle best practices and the following related technologies and techniques:

  • Use of Excel and Visio to define and analyze process requirements
  • Investigative analysis of software quality issues including review of issues within JIRA, interviews with stakeholders, data structures within databases and XML using the appropriate tools (e.g. MySQL Work Bench, TOAD or XMLSpy) including using scripting languages such as T-SQL, JavaScript, PERL, and/or VBScript
  • Understand the current and future state of a DevOps program with suggested improvements that you champion and lead including proactive test automation tools
  • Excellent verbal & written communications skills to explain SDLC concepts and related them to processes, procedures, and Agile ceremonies.
  • Ability to coach and lead others through root cause analysis and the use of quality reporting tools
  • Strong analytical skills to analyze security requirements and relate them to the protection of confidential data within the SDLC process.

Required Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree required, in a computer field preferred.
  • Experience with load ninja, bitbar, zephyr, and swagger would be of HIGH interest.

THIRD PARTY AGENCIES, SUBCONTRACTORS, AND RECRUITERS NEED NOT APPLY. Applicants received from firms will not be considered. Subcontracting is not available for this position.