Software Test Consultant

The Software Consultant is expected to validate product quality by performing manual and automated functional tests. Software Consultant will be embedded with development team and automate test cases in parallel to developer user stories.

Responsibilities:

• Creating an automation test plan and getting approval
• Applying various designs and documenting the automation test strategy
• Create Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data
• Record test results (open new tickets, close existing tickets)
• Attend design meetings with Developers and Architects and provide perspective to improve testability
• Triage issues reported in the field by attempting to recreate in local test environment
• Install, configure and operate the product in test and production environments
• Participate in daily stand-up meetings to assess current status and plan the dayu2019s activities
• Provide input on User Story creation from the testing perspective

Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in automation testing tools like Selenium, Appium.
• Knowledge of programming languages like Java or Java Script
• Experience with BDD & Page object model frameworks
• Experience testing cloud-based web applications and web services (REST)
• Solid knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle, software concepts, test methodologies and their application
• Ability to write meaningful test cases, execute test cases and record results
• Knowledge of testing methodologies and how to apply them (white box, equivalence class partitioning, pairwise, state transition, boundary value, decision table)
• Experience with at least one Test Case Management tool (TestRail, Zehpyr, EggPlant, TestLodge, etc)
• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment and learn new concepts
• Experience in Agile software development environment preferred
• Understanding of Change and Release Management
• Basic knowledge for code repository Bitbucket/SVN

Preferred Qualities:

• Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
• 8+ years of overall experience in Test/QA
• Experience with Selenium
• REST API testing experience
• Experience with Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Experience with CI (Jenkins or Bamboo)
• Experience with product solutions that include a hardware component
• Experience with Cloud deployments: AWS, Google, Azure