Quality Assurance Engineer

Why Zensar?

We re a bunch of hardworking, fun-loving, people-oriented technology enthusiasts. We love what we do, and we re passionate about helping our clients thrive in an increasingly complex digital world. Zensar is an organization focused on building relationships with our clients and with each other and happiness is at the core of everything we do. In fact, we re so into happiness that we ve created a Global Happiness Council, and we send out a Happiness Survey to our employees each year. We ve learned that employee happiness requires more than a competitive paycheck, and our employee value proposition grow, own, achieve, learn (GOAL) lays out the core opportunities we seek to foster for every employee. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to Zensar s mission and success, and our teams work on a diverse and challenging mix of technologies across a broad industry spectrum. These industries include banking and financial services, high-tech and manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, retail, and consumer services. Our employees enjoy flexible work arrangements and a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), among other benefits. If you are looking for a place to have an immediate impact, to grow and contribute, where we work hard, play hard, and support each other, consider joining team Zensar!

Zensar is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer in the United States. This position is open for Full Time with excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities.

About the Role

The Quality Assurance/Quality Engineer analyst is responsible, developing formal test plans to ensure the timely delivery of high quality technology projects. The Quality Assurance analyst works as part of a larger project team with both the business partners and technology teams to ensure that test plans include both functional and non-functional requirements. The candidate will work with other quality engineers to probe on methodology, correctness and effectiveness of the test executed and guide the technology teams and business partners. The candidate should have a proven automation experience which will help to apply automation best practices and should be having an experience working on Agile Scrum and/or Kanban methodology.

Responsibilities

Major areas of accountability:

• Testing Execution (Functional testing for Web portals, API Services, Databases) ~~ Defect Resolution ~~ Customer & Industry Compliance Requirements ~~ QA Practice ~~ Manage financials & forecasts
• Define the test strategy, test plan and test schedule. Review the test cases/scripts, ensure high test data coverage and document expected test results. Design processes for test case automation and test execution. Review requirements and define, track and publish QA metrics.
• Have worked in Agile environment and also in the onshore and offshore model to have synergies with offshore members through regular discussions and effectively utilizing the offshore and onshore team.
• Hands-on Java programming, Automation Scripting, White box testing experience in JAVA & TestNG/ jUnit
• Capable of scripting with HP UFT (Lean FT), Selenium or similar software test automation framework
• Experience in building and executing automated and performance tests for REST based services
• Experience with Agile Methodologies, Tools (JIRA, HP ALM, Confluence)
• Good experience in Test data management and associated techniques. Preferred experience on CA Test Data Manager
• Good experience working on Service Virtualization preferably through CA Dev Test (aka CA Lisa).
• Hands-on experience working with databases Oracle, MySQL & MongoDB
• Experience testing software at API level using SOA suite, SOAP UI, PostMan, REST Client etc.
• Effectively manage and execute the testing process to validate that all functional and non-functional requirements are met. Provide consistent and timely test execution status reporting.
• Manage and actively participate in the test defect resolution process; provide defect descriptions, root cause, scope, risks and impact of a problem and facilitating defect reviews. Provide feedback to technology teams and business partners on design improvements. Validate all product fixes and escalate issues that may affect the schedule, budget or quality of the product or testing process.
• Translate business partner needs in to functionally sound test plans. Analyze and understand industry testing and compliance requirements in addition to specific business partner requests and needs. Participate in business requirements discussions, design sessions and functional specification reviews with the technology teams and business partners. Ensure that test plans adequately test the functionality, interfaces, performance, and data integrity of the project.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current quality assurance principles, testing tools, processes, quality control methodologies and other technology advances.
• Clearly able to articulate the progress on automation, publish the metrics on regular basis and drive attention on the automation activities to the senior leadership. Showcase improvement in the testing effectiveness through automation solutions.
• Capable of proposing the solutions to the tool product owners for them to enhance the existing tool features.
• Strong QA experience in the past to actively be a part of Test team as part of any of the projects. Capability to participate in the test defect resolution process; including producing comprehensive defect descriptions, identify the cause, scope, risks and impact of a problem and facilitating defect reviews. Provide feedback to technology teams and business partners on design and usability improvements. Validate all product fixes and escalate issues that may affect the schedule, budget or quality of the product or testing process.
• Analyze and understand industry testing and compliance requirements in addition to specific business partner requests and needs provide innovative automation solutions to the business to improve their productivity.
• Actively involved in understanding the observations from Quality control tools like Sonarqube, Veracode security scan and other mandated code scans.

Education:

• Bachelors/ Master s Degree Information Technology

Zensar believes that diversity of backgrounds, thought, experience, and expertise fosters the robust exchange of ideas that enables the highest quality collaboration and work product. Zensar is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Zensar is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. Zensar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. Accommodation made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodation once hired.

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