Senior QA Engineer

Summary

Join Encora as a Quality Engineer and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to test software products. You will work in a scrum team, define user stories, plan testing strategies, and improve existing test suites. Responsibilities include executing functional and non-functional tests, reviewing and improving tests, researching testing tools, analyzing defects, and proactively communicating risks. This full-time, work-from-home position requires 6+ years of experience testing modern web applications and APIs in an agile environment. Strong skills in test case definition, test data planning, automated testing, scripting, and version control are essential.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience testing modern web applications in an agile environment
• 6+ years of experience testing APIs, both manually and programmatically
• Expertise in using business requirements to define test cases and testing activities from concept through implementation and deployment
• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing test data for our testing needs
• Experience in developing and maintaining automated test suites using open source frameworks
• Experience with scripting and/or object oriented languages like Javascript, Ruby, Kotlin, Java etc
• Experience with version control and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Codeship etc
• An instinct and understanding of where software might fail, and how to track down failures at various layers of an application stack
• Curiosity, attention to detail, customer focused mindset and passion for delivering business value through testing in a timely manner
• Excellent prioritization skills with an ability to multi-task and clear, concise communication

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Product and Engineering teams to understand and test our products
• Work in a scrum team to define and refine user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Plan and implement testing strategies for new and existing features
• Bolster and improve existing test suites to increase deployment confidence and speed
• Execute functional and non-functional tests including exploratory testing
• Review and improve our tests and coverage for our products
• Research, implement and Improve testing tools and processes for your teams
• Analyze defects to determine how to improve our development process
• Work with their teams to perform root cause analysis, identify trends and corrective actions
• Proactively assess, prevent and communicate risks

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to review unit and integration tests and use the information to balance holistic testing coverage and activities
• Experience working with integration and contract testing tools and frameworks such as PACT, Wiremock etc
• Experience working with developer centric testing and monitoring tools such as Optimizely, DataDog etc