Quality Engineer

Location: Englewood, NJ - Onsite and In-Person Interview (3 days per week at the Englewood Cliffs, NJ location).
Note: Need only local candidates who can go F2F interview.
Contract: 6-9+ Months
Experience: 7+ Years
 
Job Description:
  Responsibilities
•            Provide high-level test effort estimate
•            Create detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
•            Set up a test harness to test functionality
•            Automation feasibility study, development & maintenance of API, functional, integration and load/performance scripts across platforms
•            Build, deploy application & conduct manual and automated testing as per defined process
•            Report and follow up of defects found until closure
•            Analyze logs in order to understand the root causes of issues
•            Participate in agile - standups, planning sessions and retrospectives
•            Perform automated nightly application regression & performance test
•            Functional/Integration/Production testing by leveraging CI/CD Pipeline
•            Work both independently and in close collaboration with others in the team and across the business to achieve quality & performance engineering goals
•            Bring the quality consciousness, test leadership and customer advocacy
•            Create and maintain HOWTOs and other materials for quality & performance engineering team
•            Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
•            Actively coach/mentor quality engineers
•            Publish KPIs & metrics, ensure process compliance
•            Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, as required
 
Minimum Requirements
•            B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
•            5+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE testing
•            3+ yrs. of experience in testing API/GraphQL & data flows between API & front-end applications
•            3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE automation
•            Must be proficient in Java & TypeScript/JavaScript
•            Must have experience implementing automation frameworks – (Selenium WebDriver/Rest Assured/Appium/TestNG/Junit/Playwright)
•            Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics
•            Any experience in software engineering – Security testing
•            Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
•            Any certification related to QE/Process/Automation/Performance Test/Security
 
Desired traits
Organized, analytical & methodical, process-driven, customer-centric, creative, problem-solver, purposeful, articulate, composed, empathetic, trusted, collaborative & passionate.