Role: QA Test Engineer on W2
Location: Plano, TX, USA
Need Local candidate only
Interview : Onsite interview
Technical Skills: SPOCK framework, Selenium, TestNG, Java, JavaScript, Pact, REST Assured, Postman, Jira, Jira Align, Jenkins, SOASTA, Oracle, NoSQL.
The client is in the telecom domain and is looking for a local candidate for an onsite interview. Senior QA Automation Engineer (8+ years of experience) with strong hands-on expertise in SPOCK, Java, REST Assured, Postman, NoSQL, and end-to-end testing within a microservices environment.
Responsibilities
• Oversee quality assurance processes for all products, working closely with staff to define the optimal solution for each issue that may arise and implement in-house quality procedures, standards and specifications.
• Provide regular direction, mentoring, and coaching to QA team members, ensuring the success of the team’s efforts.
• Using testing techniques, design, develop, analyze test plans and strategies, write and execute test cases, and troubleshoot defects for applications.
• Develops automation strategies that will enhance test execution, manual test coverage, and the consistency of regression testing. Determine integrated testing solutions that include cross dependencies between organizations and programs.
• Collaborates with Program Managers, Dev leads, and Architects to identify test scenarios for large programs.
• Develop data and environment strategies utilizing architectural skills and methodology to meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability and security needs. Report defects and follow up on their closure.
• Analyze test results, report test metrics, and prepare and present test reports.
• Communicate progress proactively and regularly – using various tools and strategies (governance calls, stand-up calls, formal jeopardies, escalations, daily/weekly progress reports, defect metrics collections).
• Coordinate with teams involving all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle and facilitate certification for production deployment.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in the software quality field, including prior hands-on quality engineering experience.
• 2-4 years of experience in leading and managing QA resources.
• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and microservice technologies.
• Working knowledge of databases, ability to write basic SQL/NoSQL queries.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in writing automation scripts using Java, SPOCK automation framework, TestNG, and Selenium.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including requirements analysis and basic application architecture knowledge.
• Familiarity with the entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Performance, Volume, User Acceptance).
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, extremely responsive, and able to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Self-motivated, works well independently and with others.