Sr. QA Software Engineer

This position will report to QA Manager and will be responsible for ensuring and overseeing all aspects of quality in designated development projects – from inception to delivery. This position will also implement and maintain software test automation including performing code reviews for other automation testers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must have a hands-on approach
• Actively participate in requirement review and ensure all scenarios/use cases are captured
• Ensure the right level of documentation, training and knowledge sharing is happening within the team
• Actively participate in design reviews to ensure there are no design flaws and application is testable, automatable and scalable
• Ensure all stories have acceptance criteria documented before the team starts working on it
• Ensure test cases are documented, organized and maintained in TestRail and linked to Jira tickets for full traceability
• Ensure test runs are created in TestRail and updated as scenarios are updated for accurate reporting
• Review test cases with team, prioritize them and identify regression, smoke and automation candidate
• Identify candidates for test automation and develop automated tests for functional, performance and regression tests
• Ensure all the load/performance requirements are identified at the time of requirement gathering/ software design phase and built within the project plan inform of user stories
• Maintain and expand functional automation test framework, create Python libraries to support new test scenarios;
• Triage daily automation test results; fix failing test cases.
• Perform code reviews for new test cases submitted by QA team members;
• Provide mentorship, help and guidance to QA team members in their automation tasks.
• Develop performance tests for APIs and front end.
• Create Jenkins jobs for continuous automated test execution (functional and performance tests).
• Instrument automated tests for observability (sending test metrics to InfluxDB, Datadog).
• Create monitoring dashboards for test results (in Grafana, Datadog).
• Create Postman collections for new and existing API calls as needed for development and DevOps teams.
• Estimate effort, schedule and develop tasks according to agreed scope and development milestones in order to meet overall project timelines
• Coordinate with Development and Product Management to ensure proper delivery and execution of product/feature deliverables
• Conduct UAT testing session with business
• Coordinate with third party vendors and off-shore resources to conduct testing
• Participate in release activities with DevOps and confirm successful delivery into production systems

Required / Desired Knowledge, Experiences and Skills

• Minimum of five years of QA test experience required
• Prior automation experience of both UI functional tests using selenium webdriver and API tests is required
• API testing experience (developing API tests using Postman) is required;
• Ability to read and understand code is required
• Prior experience testing applications on cloud is preferred
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL technologies is required (e.g. Mongo DB, Dynamo DB)
• Prior experience in working with AWS is preferred
• Prior experience testing asynchronous applications and technologies is required (e.g. Rabbit MQ, Amazon SQS)
• Prior experience in Agile-Scrum software development environment is required
• Python scripting experience required
• Robot Framework experience preferred
• Experience with Git and Bit Bucket required
• Integrating automated tests in CICD pipeline using Jenkins required
• Load and performance testing using tools like JMeter required
• Experience with test case management tools – TestRail preferred
• Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred
• Experience working with scrum-agile teams preferred

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Information Technology Management, Information Systems, or Computer Science degree preferred

Physical Working Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit for long periods of time; use of hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; finger dexterity; talk; hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees so classified.

Generali Global Assistance is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran