Test Engineer

About the Role

The Test Engineer will interface with Project Management, Application Development, and leadership to ensure all testing work items are delivered with quality, without critical defects, in accordance with the schedule, and with the highest degree of accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains business domain subject matter expertise of a given Product Family to assist with the design and creation of testing scope and test plans.
• Analyzes requirements and technical specifications to build appropriate test cases and find or create test data.
• Conducts test case reviews with the agile team to ensure proper coverage of requirements.
• Documents, administers, and executes manual and automated test cases, test procedures/scripts per the test scope/plan for all testing types and functions.
• Works with Test Automation Engineer(s) to define automation aspects and provides test cases for coding in an automation tool.
• Ensures test results are accurately recorded and communicates them clearly to agile teams, stakeholders, and management.
• Creates and monitors defects, providing detailed recreation steps, environment details, and error logs.
• Attends agile meetings and collaborates with the team to meet sprint and milestone goals.
• Raises risks or issues proactively to maintain transparency and help resolve them.
• Recommends productivity and process improvements (Level II and above).
• Scopes and plans testing efforts for multiple projects (Level II and above).
• Mentors less experienced testers (Level II and above).
• Implements advanced testing techniques, metric tracking, and automation opportunities (Level III and above).
• Acts as a subject matter expert in testing methodologies and develops test standards (Level III and above).
• Leads testing strategies, coordinates cross-team testing, and ensures test cases are properly structured (Level IV and above).
• Onboards new testers and acts as a testing organization representative (Level IV and above).
• Reviews quality metrics dashboards and collaborates with automation engineers (Level V).
• Monitors third-party issues and UAT test cycles (Level V).
• Leads a testing/quality community of practice and recommends test solutions to senior management (Level V).

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. In lieu of a degree, three (3) cumulative years of related technical or domain experience is required.
• Basic knowledge of testing methodologies (black box, white box, regression, etc.), business requirements, use cases, databases, APIs, mobile, windows, and web applications.
• Experience with test cases, procedures, and scripts.

Qualifications

• Level II: Three (3) years of related work experience. Experience with testing at various levels (functional, integration, system, load, performance) and iterative, waterfall, and agile methodologies. Ability to work on complex projects and multiple testing efforts concurrently.
• Level III: Six (6) years of related work experience. Ability to manage large and/or multiple project testing efforts and drive complex testing solutions to completion.
• Level IV: Eight (8) years of related work experience. Demonstrated experience leading scrum teams, practical knowledge of SDLC, automated, load, and performance testing. Experience creating onboarding documentation and testing process documents.
• Level V: Ten (10) years of related work experience. Demonstrated experience leading multiple scrum teams, compiling and reporting test results, and working with automation engineers and third-party vendors.

Skills

• Understanding and writing complex data-driven test scenarios, workflow testing, user stories, and behavior-driven development.
• Identifying root cause problems and determining innovative solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Group health and/or dental insurance.
• Retirement plan.
• Wellness program.
• Paid time away from work and paid holidays.

Pay

Compensation ranges:

• Level I: $60,410 – $84,000
• Level II: $60,410 – $106,929
• Level III: $71,880 – $129,384
• Level IV: $87,766 – $157,978
• Level V: $98,297 – $176,935

Actual salary will vary based on experience, knowledge, skills, education, and internal equity.

Schedule

• Ability to work in a traditional office or home office environment for extended periods.
• Must be able to sit at a desk using a computer and keyboard for three (3) or more hours at a time.
• Travel across the enterprise may be required.