Senior QA Engineer (Must have exp in Selenium Webdriver using Java) - Hybrid Role (2 days onsite from day 1 and 3 days remote in a week) - 12 Months Contract - Direct Client

Job Title: Senior QA EngineerDuration: 12 Months Contract Location: 2 days Onsite at Cary, NC from Day 1 and 3 days Remote.

Job description :

• Providing guidance and support to associate and intermediate level QA Engineers.
• Leading product team initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Evangelizing quality processes and best practices to improve and measure the quality of products delivered to customers
• Serving in leadership roles within the QA Team and working directly with QA Manager on strategic initiatives
• Assisting QA Manager with implementing quality processes across multiple product teams
• Serving as an Enterprise QA Lead as needed to facilitate integration and end-to-end type testing
• Collaborating with the development team and stakeholders to ensure testable user stories are created and estimated
• Identifying test conditions of satisfaction for user stories and testing tasks
• Executing a QA process that fits within our overall agile life-cycle
• Developing, executing and maintaining manual and automated tests to ensure code quality in a continuous integration environment
• Capturing and reporting quality metrics to varied audiences
• Representing quality principles and processes within assigned product teams
• Recommending continuous process improvement ideas to QA Manager and within assigned product team

• Recommend strategic ideas and suggestions to the QA Manager for consideration and inclusion
• Work closely with various IT teams on initiatives outside normal product iterations as directed
• Participate in all Agile planning activities, such as user story creation, point estimation, related defects while paying particular attention to testability
• Collaborate and provide feedback on user story details related to clarifying requirements, testability, acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with business/customer representative/SME in determining acceptance criteria for user stories
• Recommend test approach, test environment requirements, and data strategies
• Provide regular status updates to project team on QA progress
• Disseminate QA summary reports as needed (e.g. Pre-imp)
• Work closely with product team to identify and resolve issues and suggest streamlining defect process within the product development lifecycle.
• Workswith automation engineer(s) and QA Manager to define a working automation modelfor individual product(s) as well as integrated product(s) and enterpriseservices
• AuditsQA artifact procedures as directed
• Makesrecommendations to QA Engineers on artifact procedure issues uncovered
• Workswith QA Manager on enhancing test artifact procedures
• Analyze,design, and maintain test artifacts such as test objectives for manual andautomated tests
• Createand/or set up test environments and testdata
• Workwith development team as needed on unit test coverage
• AuditsQA validation and verification procedures as directed
• Makesrecommendations to QA Engineers on validation and verification issues uncovered
• Ensureapplication meets documented requirements using defined quality processes andbest practices
• Performapplicable testing and verification using appropriate QA practices
• Logdefects following appropriate QA practices
• SupportUser Acceptance Testing
• Performdata validation using SQL queries
• Developand execute automated tests for regression

• Collaboration:We collaborate with our teams and our customers to get the job done, respectingindividual ideas and contributions and moving forward in pursuit of sharedgoals.
• Results:We deliver on our promises to create value for the freight rail industrythrough talented people, good ideas, business leadership, and greattechnology.
• Service:We serve the changing needs of our customers and our industry to enhance thevalue they bring to our community, the environment and our economy.

• Abilityto lead multiple testing projects simultaneously
• Abilityto explain concepts with technical and non-technical staff
• Workefficiently within assigned project schedules
• Workeffectively with all co-workers; team player
• Communicateeffectively and in a professional manner
• Exhibitability to learn complex business functions with limited guidance

• Bachelor’sdegree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired
• 2+ years- Java
• 2+ years- Selenium WebDriver with Java
• 2+ years- SQL
• 7+ yearsin a QA role with manual test case definition and execution experience
• 1+ years- SOAP & REST Webservices Testing (SOAP UI or alternate tool)
• 3+years’ experience with automated test tools
• 3+ years of Non-functional Test Experience
• 3+ years of experience using versioning software like git.
• Experience in using business driven development framework like cucumber will be a plus
• Remain abreast of current technologies and take initiative to acquire additional knowledge to prepare for additional responsibilities
• Demonstrated understanding of SDLC and QA processes and best practices in accordance with Agile/SCRUM practices
• Exhibit ability to learn complex business functions