Freelancer - QA Engineer

In Norconsulting we are currently looking for a Microsoft Fabric Architect to join us in a freelancer opportunity for a major European organization.

• Duration

  : long term

• Location

  : Remote

• Schedule

  : available at least 50% at New York business hours

• Rate

  : 120 USD per day (Around 2500 per month)

Tasks and Deliverables:

• Act as a QA focal point to development teams when communicating with Quality Assurance Team members;
• Provide support for Quality Assurance and related services and help to expand and improve the effectiveness of these services;
• Create, execute, automate, and manage test cases and test plans for existing and newly developed systems;
• Support the software development process and implementation of new software releases by testing applications and services, using established standards for IT technologies and tools;
• Participate in the specification, design, automation and support of software and services from a quality assurance perspective;
• Draft technical documentation for software and services in the form of test cases and user stories;
• Draft correspondence, communications and test reports as necessary
• Keep abreast of developments in the field of quality assurance
• Perform other work-related duties as assigned

Required skills and experiences:

• A minimum of three years of daily, hands-on practical experience in providing software quality assurance for medium-large sized development teams is required.
• A minimum of three years of daily, hands-on practical experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks or designing automated testing suites is required
• A minimum of three years of daily, hands-on practical experience with regular release testing and clearance using Agile development approaches such as SCRUM is required.
• A minimum of three years of daily, hands-on practical experience with managing test code and definitions using Software Configuration Management and integrating testing and clearance processes with build tools such as Azure DevOps Services is required.
• A minimum of one year of daily hands-on practical experience with git source control including branching and processing of pull requests is required.
• A minimum of three years of daily, hands-on practical experience with developing UI test automation with Selenium using C#/.NET is required.
• A minimum of three years daily, hands-on experience in servicing distributed development teams, Quality Assurance team members, and clients is required.
• Daily, hands-on practical experience with writing test cases using Gherkin syntax is desirable.
• Daily, hands-on practical experience with testing software for Prince2 based projects is desirable.
• Experience in testing applications hosted in Cloud Services (Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Service) is desirable.

Required Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation certification or similar certification
• Any relevant additional certifications are desirable