Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsible for test creation, testing a large module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area independently, Contributing to the immediate team and to other teams across business; Leading software quality engineering discussions and mentoring of other junior quality engineers.

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques.
• Integrate project testing with continuous-integration process.
• Lead and manage team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Provide expertise in the quality engineering, test planning and testing methodology for a software project and keeps abreast of evolving QA industry processes and standards.
• Develop and execute maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
• Master the basics of underlying transmission and distribution software applications domain.

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.

For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience6years

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or in equivalent.
• A minimum of 10 to 12 years of Software Testing experience with Web or SaaS Platform based products, Postgress databases.
• Experience on building Test Automation Frameworks specifically in Java, Javascript Type Script, Selenium.
• Experience testing web services (SOAP/REST)
• Experience testing hosted or SaaS-based solutions.
• Familiar with relational database design and good working knowledge of SQL for querying, updating, and deleting data.
• Strong proficiency with functional, regression, performance and stability testing techniques.
• Experience working in a cross-functional development team with the ability to influence quality of products in that environment.
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities.

Business Acumen:Understands the technology landscape, up to date on current technology trends and new technology, brings new ideas to the team.
Displays understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer. Shows commitment to deliver the best value proposition for the targeted customer.Learns organization vision statement and decision-making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision
Leadership:

Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence.
Learns organization vision statement and decision-making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision.Seeks to understand problems thoroughly before implementing solutions. Gide the team with questions to clarify requirements when ambiguities are present.Identifies opportunities for innovation and offers new ideas. Takes the initiative to experiment with new software frameworksAdapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached, responds to need & seeks info from other sources.