QA Test Engineer-POS

QA Test Engineer-POS

Pay Rate: $33-$45/hour

Qualifications

1. Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
2. Minimum 7 years of industry experience, preferably in an Agile development environment.
3. Must have 5+ years of Java coding experience.
4. Experience with automated testing tools: Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, and Java.
5. Experience in API automation testing using Java Spring Boot 2, RestAssured, GraphQL, or Postman.
6. Experience with JMS-driven messaging protocols such as AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
7. Knowledge of MS Entity Framework and/or Spring JDBC.
8. Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
9. Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools, preferably Jenkins/Jenkins X.
10. Must have experience with source control/versioning tools and processes, including Git and Stash.
11. Experience writing SQL queries for test data preparation and data validation.
12. Nice to have: Experience querying Couchbase databases.
13. Experience working with databases, various data formats, and related testing technologies. SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio are a plus.
14. Experience using Splunk analytics to validate technical fixes and application code/configuration updates.
15. Experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira.
16. Experience in manual testing.
17. POS (Point of Sale) system experience is a plus.
18. Nice to have: Experience with payment gateways and payment terminals.
19. Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations.
20. Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and follow-up activities.
21. Ability to multitask in a fast-paced Agile work environment.
22. Experience working with high-traffic eCommerce applications.

Responsibilities

1. Participate in developing and documenting user stories by providing test strategies and automation estimates.
2. Develop, document, and maintain test strategies and test scenarios.
3. Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
4. Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts.
5. Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to identify technical solutions for test automation.
6. Build and manage automated test suites, ensuring execution across multiple environments, CI/CD pipelines, and NOC team usage.
7. Regularly execute, maintain, and enhance automated test suites, analyzing results to identify root causes of failures.
8. Create defects for issues found, provide appropriate documentation, ensure resolution, validate fixes, and update automation as needed.
9. Present testing results to support sign-off on software functionality for production releases.
10. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and release management to manage development, QA, and production software releases.
11. Perform exploratory testing to understand features, discover unexpected behavior, and refine or create additional test cases.
12. Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and methodologies.
13. Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
14. Participate in the analysis of major incidents and emergency change controls to identify opportunities for automating software quality test cases and reducing future risks.