The Senior QA Engineer will work closely with the development team and business analysts create and execute manual and automated software testing activities while delivering on multiple projects implementing new features and enhancements, and bug fixes on a large and complex portfolio management system. The right candidate will have expertise with QA best practices and have proven experience performing all QA-related functions such as vetting requirements, creating Test Plans and test cases, executing test cases, creating automation scripts, and reviewing regression results in order to quickly determine if our products are ready for market. QA team members work very closely with developers on an integrated team dedicated to delivering high quality solutions, and the right candidate will enjoy being part of a highly interactive, agile team.
**Responsibilities:**
•Strong collaboration skills. Works collaboratively with development during all stages of projects to provide in process testing results. Works directly with appropriate business partners and development to understand project concepts, objectives and approach of software development projects.
• Strong communications, teamwork, and problem-solving skills are necessary. Ability to interact and communicate well with business partners and technology teams is required. Written and verbal communication skills must both be strong.
• Mentoring QA staff.
• Participate in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load/performance and system testing.
• Defines scope and objectives of all levels of QA testing.
• Establishes the purpose and deliverables of the test effort.
• Develop and implement test plans/cases
• Develop automated testing scripts for complex environments
• Lead QA efforts for assigned project(s) including coordination of QA project team who test, evaluate and validate new functions and applications, and identify issues in software or services.
• Define, develop and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, test plans and other QA assessments. Establish standards and best practices for the use within the Agile Scrum methodology. Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
• Manage defects and proactively identify risks to management
• Able to work independently and in team environments.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills to provide detailed root cause analysis.
**Requirements:**
Required-
• 5+ years’ of experience successfully testing applications for Windows platforms using Microsoft technologies
• 3+ years’ of strong hands on experience test automation tools.
• Expert experience creating test plans for medium to large projects with complex interactions requiring verification.
• Extremely strong investigative and interpretive skills required.
• Very strong multitasking skills will be required. Must be comfortable in a dynamic fast paced environment.
• Good estimation skills, able to provide reasonable estimates for yourself and others.
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Must be independent and capable of learning new skills and product features quickly.
Desired-
• BS or MS in computer science or related technical field
• Experience with React, HTML5, JavaScript, C# is a plus
