Quality Automation Engineer

Job Summary

Prominent is seeking a Quality Automation Engineer for a contract to hire opportunity in Greenwood Village, Colorado or Omaha, Nebraska. Candidates must be on Prominent's payroll as a W2 during the contract phase.

About the Role

As a Quality Automation Engineer, you will play a crucial role in reducing risk and delivering high-quality software applications by collaborating with technical and business groups to define testing requirements. Your responsibilities include:

• Defining and executing test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications
• Leading and participating in test planning and quality review sessions
• Writing test cases/scripts which may include application, network, system, regression, and user acceptance testing
• Leading test projects with minimal supervision
• Performing technical testing activities including planning, design, scripting, and execution, debugging, and reporting
• Creating and executing automated and manual tests for large projects
• Researching new tools and testing approaches
• Performing post-test execution activities including error debugging, and internal and external communications
• Assisting 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; generating software quality-related metrics
• Working with multiple programs and systems on projects of high complexity
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring, and training to less experienced individuals
• Project Leadership: Providing quality and test advocacy, performing planning, organizing, monitoring, and oversight of all phases of testing, working closely with project manager and others to ensure business testing requirements are being met, facilitating test meetings, escalating issues/concerns to the project management team as needed, monitoring issues and defects for trends, providing metrics to the project management team, managing risks associated with testing, taking preventative action when risks become unacceptable, managing 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 able to work onsite
• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• No visa sponsorship available
• C2C or 1099 not available for this opportunity

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

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