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  • ID
    #17811266
  • Job type
    Permanent
  • Salary
    Depends on Experience
  • Source
    Smith Johnson Group Inc.
  • Date
    2021-07-20
  • Deadline
    2021-09-18

QA Engineer 4

Utah, Lehi, 84043 Lehi USA
 
Permanent

Vacancy expired!

PURPOSESThe QA Contractor will work on a project to assist the Get Involved and Indexing teams as they develop exciting new capabilities to allow global volunteers to both create new searchable records and improve the fidelity of existing searchable records. This will help people around the world to have inspiring experiences as they discover, gather, and connect their family.As a QA contractor, the candidate will help maximize the success of our patrons and the Family History Department by identifying, communicating, and minimizing risk through test planning and test execution activities related to this project. For the duration of their contract, they will participate in Iteration Planning, Retrospectives, Iteration Reviews and daily Stand-up meetings to report on progress and concerns. For all delivered project features, they will complete exploratory, functional, integration, and system level testing; write automated acceptance tests; identify and report defects in code, architecture, design, and requirements; and validate resolved defects. They will track all work using our internal tools (e.g., VersionOne). They complete additional work related to the project as identified during project iterations.This is a contract position that is responsible for testing products, applications and solutions, and reviewing progress with management. This individual conducts a wide range of quality control tests and analyses to ensure that software meets or exceeds specified standards and end-user requirements. They understand and communicate the non-functional requirements which are necessary for successful product operation. This role consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues. This individual also makes recommendations for new procedures and acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Writes significant areas of test automation code
  • Manages defect management systems, understands impacts of defects across multiple systems and prioritizes defects accurately
  • Drafts, revises and approves test plans and scripts to ensure alignment with standards and IT strategy
  • Creates test data files with valid and invalid records to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow
  • Ensures that system tests are successfully completed and documented, and all problems are solved using a Continuous Delivery model
  • Drives the creation, maintenance and use of test case management tools and security testing tools within a project group, interprets results and implements changes. Provides the integrated reporting of automated test case run results
  • Creates and communicates testing procedures and expectations related to metric reporting across multiple teams and stakeholders. Implements test procedure based on identified risks
  • Drives the creation, maintenance and use of tools within a project group and implements changes that support changes in system performance management
  • Collaborates on all aspects of quality assurance involvement in the release process, including expectations around reports, regression execution, communication, impact assessments etc.
  • Assesses risk, identifies service and system dependencies, and tests for robustness and functionality
  • Ensures regression test plans are implemented and maintained

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Work Experience:
  • 8+ years of relevant experience

Demonstrated Skills & Abilities:
  • Proven Experience in developing and testing enterprise level applications strongly preferred
  • Expertise with major products
  • Experience testing cloud-based applications in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in a service-oriented architecture preferred
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills
  • Track record of isolating difficult issues at the subsystem or project level
  • Experience with the full product release cycle on multiple successful software projects
  • Verifiable knowledge of the applicable technical systems and functions
  • Experience testing products in an Agile development life cycle
  • This job operates in a professional office environment
  • To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment

Manager Notes
  • What are the top 3 technical skills needed to be successful in this job? (List in order of importance)
  • Write automated acceptance tests for front-end (selenium or similar tool experience a plus)
  • Write automated acceptance tests in Java for back-end RESTful service (Jersey REST client library, REST-assured)
  • Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Explain what non-technical skills are most important for this role?
  • Ability to identify and communicate risks in a professional manner.
  • Determination to see problems through to resolution.
  • Conflict Resolution.
  • Ability to view solutions from the customer’s perspective.
  • Ability to appropriately prioritize risks and issues.

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