Sr. Quality Engineer- First Dollar (Remote)

About the role

The Sr. Quality Engineer will report to the Technology Department. This role is responsible for leading a team of QA testers/engineers in testing our suite of products and software products to consistently deliver the highest quality solutions via SaaS, and On-Premises models. You will be an experienced leader in driving and implementing QA frameworks, processes, and strategies. You will implement industry standard quality assurance policies and practices, and ensure they are followed by measuring product and process quality.

Responsibilities

• Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline, and framework.
• Driving and improving the QA team in areas of automated testing and agile testing.
• Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools, and Techniques across the teams.
• Define QA strategy, approach, and execution in development projects.
• Lead and direct the QA team.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
• Performance management, coaching, and professional development for QA team; ensure testing skill set is up to date and capable of supporting the development effort.
• Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation.
• Implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort.
• This incumbent must be creative, client focused, solutions-driven, organized, and thrive in an extremely dynamic environment as well as have solid people skills.

Requirements

Years of Experience: 5-7 years of experience
Degree: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
Certification: QA testing related certifications (or willingness to obtain) such as Certified Test Engineer (CSTE), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), and Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST)

Skills & Abilities

• 7+ years of experience in software development industry
  
• 5 years of experience in managing a quality assurance team
  
• Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
  
• Specialization in performance and load testing, security, automation, release management, and agile training
  
• Hands on expertise with automation tools, frameworks, and standard methodologies
  
• Proven experience in test planning, test design, test & automation strategy, and test execution
  
• Demonstrated experience leading test efforts for Software and Product development
  
• Understanding and ability to work on a variety of IT platforms
  
• Experience working in Cloud environment (such as Azure and AWS) and cloud technologies
  
• Self-starter, independent worker and have a love for QA
  
• Hands on UI and API automation experience (JMeter, Blaze Meter, Postman, Python 3.x, Pytest, Selenium, BrowserStack, MABL)
  
• Agile tools exposure (e.g., Atlassian products – JIRA, Confluence, GIT, X-Ray)
  
• Continuous Integration tools knowledge (e.g., ADO, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Spinnaker)
  
• Data validation and quality testing
  
• Test Automation Proficiency with tools such as Selenium, BrowserStack, Postman or other QA testing tools
  
• Proven experience in developing and coding automation test scripts.
  
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance and development
  
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
  
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
  
• Proven experience preparing, presenting, and maintaining required SDLC documentation and artifacts
  
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON
  
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
  
• Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms preferred
  
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON