Software QA Engineer

Position Summary

Design, implement and articulate testing strategies, test automation and test engineering technologies. Translates business and technical requirements into test suites, test cases and test scripts. . Establishes and maintains Quality Engineering methodologies, systems, and practices that meet CDK, customer, and regulatory requirements. Utilizes industry best practices and metrics..

Position Responsibilities & Essential function

• Collaborate with Product and Development to understand requirements and translate them into test cases.
• Create software test plans as part of a project team or longer term effort with little oversight
• Develops automation scripts for testing new features, and continual expansion of regression test cases
• Builds and maintains test environments
• Contribute to product level test strategies
• Provide work breakdown and estimates for the activities
• Identify product defects, understand complex problems and recommend solutions. Offer deep defect root cause analysis and root cause solutions
• Proactively communicates any risks, design/quality issues, or need to increase scope/time.
• Thinks ahead by researching ideas that can change or automate existing processes and tools.
• Understands other products of CDK and see how they impact their product.

Qualifications

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Unix Linux
• Experience of scripting language - ShellJava/Perl/Python/Ruby.
• Working knowledge of Agile tools like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile.
• Knowledge of AWS ecosystem or cloud based environments.

Education/Experience

• Experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with at least 3 years of programming experience or a Masters degree
• Proficiency of scripting language - Perl, python, shell, and test automation tools.
• Knowledge of Automate Build deployment, CI/CD processes.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills