Senior Software Engineer QE

04 Aug 2024

Vacancy expired!

Senior Software Engineer QE Location: Arlington, VA/Hybrid

Duration: 24 Months with possible contract to hire

Role - Play a pivotal role on the Agile team in the continuous validation of web applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions

- Design and develop test automation scenarios to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions (for API and UI tests)

- Interact with business and development stakeholders to define test plans and schedules

- Translate complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods

- Identify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code where needed

- Work closely with software engineers to build quality in, ensuring proper test and requirement coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing

- Generate test data for defined test cases, recognize test environment preparation needs, and execute existing test plans and report results

- Participate in project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections, and conduct test reviews, including test plans, requirements, cases and automation coverage

- Document performance test strategies and test plans, and execute performance validation

- Collect quality metric data and communicate test statrisks to stakeholders

- Work closely with developers to identify code defects or regressions

- Closely adhere to quality standards and assist team members in validating application functionality through the implementation of test strategies, frameworks, tools, reports, etc.

- Assist in planning and documenting test strategies and acceptance criteria based on customer needs

- Participate in requirements review, story elaborations and testing activities

- Design, code, and construct automation tests; escalate issues during testing

- Provide automation tests for operations teams to use in Ci/Cd automated quality gates

- Perform Exploratory testing as required

- Raise process improvement opportunities

- Act as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections

- Provide technical support and mentoring to junior team members

- Perform demos of new product functionality to stakeholders

All About You - Experienced in advanced code development, code review, and construction and use of automation frameworks

- Experienced in building automation frameworks as well as acceptance and integration test automation scripts

- Successfully developed high quality test strategies and text execution

- Analyzed application logs and utilized basic debugging techniques

- Successfully validated one or more applications via automation, for new feature functionality and regression testing

- Experienced in Agile testing methodologies and tools, unit and integration testing, and data virtualization tools

- Basic understanding of validation techniques and Continuous Testing

- Familiarity with UI automation frameworks, tools, and techniques to validate user interfaces (mobile, portal, web, etc.)

- Able to mentor peers and guide less experienced Team members

Technical Skills - Design Architecture (Foundational)

- Technology R&D (Foundational)

- Project Management (Intermediate)

- Requirements Assessment (Intermediate)

- Software Development (Advanced)

- Agile Development (Intermediate)

- Automation and DevOps (Intermediate)

Professional Skills (Intermediate) - Business Acumen

- Commercial Focus

- Future Focus

- Global Perspective

- Innovation and thought leadership

- People Leadership

- Personal Influence

Team’s main responsibility: Development team for a component that interfaces with a 3rd party (TSYS) for near real time information to commercial card users.

Culture of your team: This team is very small, there is a tech lead, and another contractor whom has been on the team for a year, a product owner, and a tester. This team will have more upcoming enhancements, including a Bank of America contract that will expand the functionality. So we also need to convert to using API's and moving to cloud.

Management style: Manager expect everyone to be professional, inclusive and the adults they are. Manager provide prioritization, who go to, why is something important/how it fits into the big picture. Manager empower my team to do the right thing. Ensure all deployments have appropriate testing, back out steps and validations.

Typical work day look like for this contractor: Testing of new enhancements, automating testing flows, documentation of test cases, creating test plans.

Top 3 required technical skills: Test Automation

Java

Cypress or Selenium

Couple of desired/nice to have skills: API Testing and knowledge of REST

Cucumber

Jenkins

Browserstack

Success will be measured during their contract: Ability to work with other team members

Ability to take something and run with it themselves. Including full lifecycle Communicate effectively, working

  • ID: #44580694
  • State: Virginia Arlington 22201 Arlington USA
  • City: Arlington
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-08-04
  • Deadline: 2022-09-17
  • Category: Et cetera