Software Quality Test Engineer

Description

Our client is an independent, not-for-profit organization, founded to protect the public by assessing and certifying doctors who meet specific educational, training, and professional requirements.

They are seeking a dynamic Quality Test Engineer to join the QA Team. The QA Engineer will be joining a highly qualified team of professionals that work together to develop, execute and update functional testing on internally and externally developed software components and assembled systems. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record working in a team environment, test automation, meticulous attention to detail, and a problem-centric, results-oriented approach. This is a Tucson based hybrid position that requires in-office attendance two days a week.

They offer an EXCELLENT compensation and benefits package including:

• Competitive pay DOE
• Employer sponsored Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Employee sponsored Life Insurance, Long and Short-Term Disability
• Suite of voluntary insurance benefits
• 401K with up to 4% employer match and additional 6% discretionary contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off and Sick Time
• Holidays
• Excellent work/life balance
• Annual education/training budget per individual

Requirements

• Develop and execute smoke, functional, and regression test plans using grey and black box techniques as appropriate.
• Defect reporting and tracking when bugs or defects are identified during testing
• Contribute knowledge to functional requirement discovery and setting expectations during all phases of development.
• Work within established development standards and methodologies, including agile development.
• Collaborate with a team of test engineers and developers to evaluate current and new software techniques and technologies.
• Contribute to the development of processes, procedures, and standards for delivering quality products in a timely manner.
• Coordinate testing efforts across distributed contributors.
• Work with the team to document and promote best practices and patterns.
• Provide feedback and advises teams of quality improvement strategies and practices.
• Proficient in developing and running test automation for smoke/functional and regression testing
• Mentor team members to improve their functional and automation testing abilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in related field and two years of experience or equivalent years of experience
• Minimum of four years experience in some combination of functional testing in a software engineering environment, including automated testing
• Experience writing and executing test plans
• Experience with and understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of Object-oriented analysis and design
• Understanding of all phases of the software development/implementation life cycle.
• Experience developing and running automated smoke, functional and regression tests
• Proficiency with relational databases (e.g. MSSQL and MySQL)
• Experience with a version control system such as Azure DevOps and Git

Desired Skills and Competencies

• Experience with data and metadata management and security/risk management
• Experience with Robot Framework and/or Testim/LamdaTest Automated UI and Functional Testing
• Experience with MongoDB
• Familiarity with SOA (Service Oriented Architectures) including exposure to web service or semantic web architectures
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work with a team in a distributed environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Effective Time management

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