Quality Assurance Engineer

ChenMed

22h•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for helping to maintain and improve quality standards for our products by ensuring that we diligently identify and remediate any new defects through application testing, system support and documentation. The incumbent in this role designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements test cases; supports and/or resolves issues with software applications and components; works from written specifications and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job and maintains documentation of process flow. He/She works closely with other QA Engineers, Software Engineers, IT Architects, Product Owners and other technical professionals to ensure that specifications that are clearly articulated have been met.

Requirements

Fundamental familiarity with quality assurance methodologies and objectives
A product-centric mindset and the ability to ask questions in order to improve the product, not only in its technical implementation but also in how well it is serving the needs of our customers
Ability to translate technical requirements and specifications into deliverable test cases/scripts and analyze logs
Ability to mentor technicians and administrators, teammates and project partners for the decomposed work
Operates with weekly supervision
Influences associates to follow standards and correct approaches
Breaks up multi-week objectives into tasks.
Completes 1-week tasks alone
Expert in at least one Core domain or technology. Intermediate skill with at least one other. Basic competency in most domains or technologies used in team
Improves own productivity.
Positive influence on team.
Builds relationships and earns respect across multiple internal teams and partner organizations
Solid at delivery and execution. Completes tasks with a high standard of quality.
Assumes ownership over results, including both successes and failures.
Learns quickly from mistakes and failures, including those of others.
Keeps manager apprised of progress and knows when to escalate
Able to have critical interactions in a calm and professional manner.
Ability to identify personal development goals as part of yearly review.
Able to align core controls to business requirements
Provides solution-driven thought leadership for affiliated team
Ability to learn and implement new technologies and processes
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills
Ability to create technical documentation describing proposed functionalities and story test
Familiarity with databases and knowledge of SQL
Ability to write basic code in languages like Java or Python
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, plus a variety of other word-processing, spreadsheet, database, e-mail and presentation software
Ability and willingness to travel locally, regionally and nationwide up to 10% of the time
Spoken and written fluency in English
This job requires use and exercise of independent judgment
BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related field OR additional experience above the minimum will be considered in lieu of the required education on a year-for-year basis required
A minimum of 2 years of IT-related work experience
A minimum of 1 year of experience with manual testing, API testing, Integration testing and troubleshooting
Intermediate level experience in quality assurance and/or equivalent

Responsibilities

Creates, executes and administers test plans/test cases across the entire spectrum of quality assurance, including but not limited to: exploratory tests, acceptance tests, functional tests, regression tests, smoke tests, usability tests, performance tests, etc.
Performs black box and/or white box testing as needed.
Writes automated selenium and API scripts.
Communicates quality issues and risks to the software development teams and technical leaders.
Works with multiple application development, architecture and network teams to identify, diagnose and report on application issues.
Provides engineering support for testing approach design and tools on projects.
Assists with creating and performing repeatable testing procedures and processes.
Defines regression cases and makes suggestions for automation.
Provides feedback and recommendations to Developers on software usability and functionality.
Scrum Team member actively participates in all scrum ceremonies.
Analyzes requirements (user stories and acceptance criteria).
Details preliminary set of tasks for each User Story.
Coordinates with management to ensure identification of appropriate schedules, goals, design criteria, methodology, etc.
Completes assigned tasks thoroughly and on time.
Escalates appropriately, if deadlines are in danger of being missed.
Performs other duties as assigned and modified at manager’s discretion.