Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

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: Own large sized tasks or small projects and delivers QE artifacts. Manages deliverables and mentors junior team members.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining coding standards and processes to ensure quality code is produced.
• Reuse existing code appropriately wherever possible; drives same behaviours across team while coaching other developers to improve their code quality.
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams at the COE. Determine testing best practices and principals and promotes them across the organization.
• Work with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions. Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
• Provide subject matter expertise in the quality engineering, manages test plans and testing methodology for software projects. Use test automation techniques (data driven, pairwise, mocking, test hooks) that fit the problem space.
• Understands designing and coding for testability to produce quality code with the lowest cost.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum experience of 9 years.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Has extensive experience in test automation (using selenium) Demonstrates experience and ability to write Java/.NET code for the purposes of testing solution code (e.g., white-box testing).
• Has experience in UI testing Has experience in testing web services Has experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems Has experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Has experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure
• Expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
• Skilled at developing code for other developers to learn from. Skilled in integrating project testing with continuous-integration process.
• Business Acumen: Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective
• Leadership: Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes: