Senior Quality Engineer -Test Governance & Standards

Transamerica • Cedar Rapids, IA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence, you will review and approve Test Plans and Exit Reports, provide support for testing teams through group training and individual support on testing, using QuMo, and following the company’s testing standards, and advise a team of local or outsourced software testers to test and support business application solutions.

Requirements

• Experience testing Enterprise Applications
• Experience using Enterprise Testing Tools – Test Management (qTest), Requirements Management (Jira), Defect Management (Jira), Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience
• Three years of Core Java or .NET test experience
• Strong knowledge of testing in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)
• Understanding of cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various supporting tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)
• Knowledge of testing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker , Spark)
• Two years of testing experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)
• Knowledge of testing Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata , .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper )
• Familiarity with testing modern frontend development frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax)
• Advanced understanding of software development and research tools
• Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Technical communication skills
• Problem-solving and technical communication skills
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines

Nice To Haves

• Experience in FinTech
• Experience in Test Automation
• Experience in Performance Testing
• Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
• Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)
• Knowledge of the financial services industry

Responsibilities

• Review and approve test plans and exit reports for solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies
• Train test teams on the Quality Engineering Testing Processes
• Verify that the Quality Engineering processes are being followed
• Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies and mentor other team members in testing standards.
• Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
• Assist with preparing presentations and may lead development meetings.

Benefits

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees
• Pension Plan
• 401k Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities
• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten (10) paid holidays per year
• Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
• Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Back-Up Care Program
• PTO for Volunteer Hours
• Employee Matching Gifts Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Inclusion and Diversity Programs
• Employee Recognition Program
• Referral Bonus Programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior