Software Quality Engineer

Software Quality Engineer

Summary
Our client is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to work closely with the product and development teams to assess software quality by performing both automated and manual testing. This is a remote role, with the ability to come in to the KC office as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to defined quality standards, best practices and test procedures.
• Advocate quality and lead the team s test development, test execution, results analysis, and reporting.
• Assess quality trends and drive continuous improvement for processes, tools, and product quality performance.
• Collaborate with Scrum Team to discuss acceptance criteria and identify test scenarios.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management; and develop recommendations to resolve issues.
• Create new, enhance, maintain, adapt, and execute existing automated tests as the product under test evolves.
• Create, update, and manage test data for use in the various stages of software testing.
• Define the test strategy and test plan based on software development plan.
• Demonstrate a commitment to quality and customer service with enthusiasm and flexibility.
• Develop, maintain, and present training materials on quality assurance to business and IT staff.
• Develop test plans in coordination with Product Development and create test cases based on these requirements.
• Lead discussion of acceptance criteria and identify test scenarios with Scrum Team.
• Lead the effort to develop creative solutions to test complex software components.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Provide technical training and mentoring to other development team members.
• Troubleshoot and retest defect fixes.

Requirements

• Experience with the following:
  • building framework for test automation scripts, as well as developing and maintaining them;
  • implementing browser testing tools including Selenium, Playwright, and Cucumber;
  • Implementing testing frameworks including TestNG and Junit;
  • Data test automation using Java, SQL, and Shell scripting;
  • Incorporating automated testing via GitLab CI or equivalent CI/CD pipeline tool;
  • performing manual and exploratory testing;
  • Scrum-based or Agile methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software quickly and independently.

This is a 6-Month Contract opportunity with our Kansas City, MO client. 100% Paid employee Medical/Dental Benefits, Paid time off, Paid Holidays, and 401(k) (with immediately-vested company match) available with TriCom during the contract period. H1-B Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. No third-parties, please.