Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Stock Programs

Responsibilities

• Lead software and product testing initiatives for the Corporate Systems team with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate with the team to determine and establish quality assurance processes and testing strategies for designated products.
• Guide other Quality Assurance Engineers in implementing and executing testing best practices and mentor them in developing automated test scripts.
• Ensure all Quality Assurance and testing activities are performed throughout the project lifecycle and verify the results of these activities.
• Engage in requirements and design meetings to estimate testing efforts and formulate test plans.
• Develop detailed test plans by collaborating with project team members, including product owners, analysts, and the development team.
• Analyze and translate project documentation, release notes, and other documentation into comprehensive test scenarios.
• Create test cases, test sets, and test scripts to validate business functionalities effectively.
• Design, develop, and execute automated tests utilizing various test automation frameworks.
• Create test data as needed to prepare for manual testing.
• Execute manual and automated test scripts and validate results for project accuracy.
• Facilitate defect tracking, problem identification, and resolution throughout the project lifecycle.
• Present testing results for review to support go/no-go decisions.
• Operate in an agile environment with frequent and rapid code releases to production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or a related analytical field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance in a Windows environment.
• Experience using Azure DevOps for managing tasks and defects.
• 4+ years creating automation test strategies and general experience writing automation scripts using industry standard programming languages.
• 4+ years of experience developing testing software frameworks and developing test scripts using industry standard programming languages like Java, C#, Python.
• 4+ years of experience writing and executing manual and automated test cases for feature sets on various applications, including websites, using ALM, Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.
• QA experience with strong hands-on use of GitHub (or similar Git-based platforms) for version control, pull requests, and CI/CD-integrated test automation.
• 2+ years of experience performing as a “gate keeper” by providing test result summaries and recommendations to the project team to pass or fail a test cycle/release.
• Experience mentoring and leading Quality Assurance Engineers on QA best practices and developing automated test cases.
• 2+ years of experience writing SQL queries and performing database validations and manipulation.

Qualifications

• Experienced in applying Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Skilled in automation testing using Selenium or Playwright for .NET.
• Experienced with .NET test automation frameworks such as NUnit and xUnit.
• Familiar with development tools like Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse, and IntelliJ.
• Experienced in utilizing Microsoft Azure DevOps for Test Plans, Repos, and Pipelines, including the integration of test automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Adept at conducting performance testing for APIs, backend systems, and user interfaces.