Quality Automation Engineer

About the role

Prominent is seeking a Quality Automation Engineer for a contract to hire position in Greenwood Village, Colorado or Omaha, Nebraska. This role is full-time and 100% onsite.

Responsibilities

• Work with Technical and Business groups to define the scope of testing required
• Use your experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Define and execute test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications
• Lead and participate in test planning and quality review sessions
• Write test cases/scripts which may include application, network, system, regression and user acceptance testing
• Lead test projects with minimal supervision
• Perform technical testing activities including planning, design, scripting, and execution, debugging and reporting
• Create and execute automated and manual tests for large projects
• Research new tools and testing approaches
• Perform post-test execution activities including error debugging, and internal and external communications
• Assist with testing execution for all system components, including functional and integration testing, ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases, documenting test cases and generating reports; generate software quality related metrics
• Work with multiple programs and systems on projects of high complexity
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and training to less experienced individuals
• Project Leadership: Perform quality and test advocacy, plan, organize, monitor, and oversee all phases of testing, coordinate with project manager and others to ensure business testing requirements are being met, facilitate test meetings and escalate issues/concerns to the project management team as needed, monitor issues and defects for trends and provide metrics to the project management team, manage risks associated with testing, take preventative action when risks become unacceptable, manage stakeholder relationships with respect to all testing matters

Requirements

• 5 years experience testing on mainframe, midrange and API applications
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience and/or Certifications
• Experience using SQL for test data creation and verification
• Experience with test case development and execution tools such as Jira Test Management, Azure DevOps
• Journeyman knowledge of information systems elements (hardware, software, network) and their application to business functions/processes
• Understanding of the key processes in the business and the business rules that impact the development and/or implementation of information systems
• Self-starting and comfortable with independently creating test plans and test scenarios with minimum assistance using application and requirement documentation
• Works well with ambiguity and changing requirements
• Drives continuous improvement through all processes, including but not limited to, team standards, test planning, resourcing and test execution, as well as debugging, metric collection, and reporting

Qualifications

• Must be on Prominent payroll as a W2 during the contract phase

Skills

• SQL for test data creation and verification
• Test case development and execution tools such as Jira Test Management, Azure DevOps
• Journeyman knowledge of information systems elements (hardware, software, network)
• Understanding of the key processes in the business and the business rules that impact the development and/or implementation of information systems
• Ability to work with ambiguity and changing requirements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Continuous improvement mindset

Benefits

• Full-time, 100% onsite position
• Competitive rate of $30-34/hr while on contract

Pay

• Anticipated rate while on contract is $30-34/hr

Schedule

• Full-time, 100% onsite position