Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

This Sr. Quality Engineering role, working as a test lead for DCL solutions in Crew & Sea Ware, position is responsible for having a strong focus leading a product from conception to delivery quickly and efficiently with a high level of quality and polish. This role will be highly collaborative and ensure testing strategies and plans between mobile studios meets QE quality and standards. There is a high expectation on designing and developing manual and automated test solutions to verify and validate functionality, performance, stability and usability of critical software systems developed by the Engineering team. This includes software testing, scripting, writing and the execution of test plans and test cases. This also includes strong collaboration with Software Development Engineering studio teams to ensure that the test plan, automation approach and frameworks are optimized for the solution under development.

Details of these responsibilities are listed below:
 

• Utilize existing or establish repeatable automation engineering processes that can be measured and optimized
• Provide estimates of automation efforts and capacity planning in an agile environment
• Establish and optimize automation engineer resource plans
• Surface and drive to resolution technical risks and issues impeding automation build and execution velocity, escalating to leadership when appropriate
• Establish expected productivity targets, monitor productivity, and identify and implement velocity improvements
• Establish and drive proactive automation maintenance processes to reduce automation execution failures
• Establish and optimize coding practices and lead and participate in code reviews
• Provide hands on leadership in establishing and optimizing automation frameworks
• Leverage standard tools like Jira, Microfocus ALM, QTest and Jira to plan, execute, record, and report out on automation activities
• Mentors team members in the agile, quality engineering, automation, and CI/CD space.
• Partners with cross-discipline peers to improve the software development process
• Leads the creation of QA documentation by team members; documents system and framework architecture; leads the creation of project technical documentation.
• Manages test planning development and test execution to schedule and budget, and escalates if productivity metrics are not met.
• Creates sweeping improvements in test architecture, design and strategy that improve coverage across all  business tested systems
• Provides solutions to the most complex problems that the team encounters 
• Effectively sets processes, controls and expectations for the team
• Accountable for maintaining a high level of domain knowledge and for effective knowledge transfer
• Operates independently, while elevating status, risks, issues, and mitigations to leadership appropriately
• Audits the writing of test cases/scripts for quality and compliance.
• Ensures that Quality Assurance team follows testing standards, guidelines, and methodology as specified in the testing approach.
• Develops broad technical solutions that meet specifications and impact future developments. 
• Leads examination, validation and testing of software systems.
• Performs complex QA projects, tasks, and bug fixes; writes scripts.
• Independently designs and builds semi-complex systems that exercise various use cases and scenarios.
• Analyzes data requirements for test coverage, and defines routines and solutions to create test data to meet automation requirements.
• Analyzes infrastructure or system level requirements, and defines automation or scripts to validate infrastructure and middleware requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of related work experience
• 5+ years of working in agile software development
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance & mobile quality engineering
• 5+ years of experience writing or executing manual & automated test cases
• 5+ years of experience establishing automated testing frameworks with tools such as Java, Selenium, Appium, Node.js, Flutter or Cucumber
• Experience leading test efforts on multiple web browsers and operating systems (Mac OS, Windows, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge) including mobile web
• Clear communicator (written and verbal)
• 3+ years of experience in proven mobile testing and quality engineering
• Ability to lead and drive a team to meet deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
• Deep understanding and experience with different techniques for testing software.
• Ability to lead a team with open and collaborative style of communications.
• Passion for software quality and for advancing testing as an engineering discipline.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• 2+ years of project or team lead experience.
• Significant knowledge of software QA engineering tools and processes, test automation, building and testing frameworks, and consumer-facing applications and databases.
• Significant experience in automated testing.
• Significant proficiency in several areas of the QA functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Lead automation efforts utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure or other cloud services providers in support of CI/CD solutions
• Knowledge of test technology trends and Web frameworks/tools (AngularJS, NodeJS, cloud etc.)
• Experience implementing automation frameworks within cloud services Selenium grids and cloud services device farms (Sauces Labs is preferred)
• A passion for technology!