Senior Software Test Engineer

Summary

Join ScienceLogic as a QA Lead and spearhead all testing efforts, ensuring top-quality performance. You will leverage your technical expertise and strategic planning skills to develop and execute a robust testing strategy. Collaborate closely with development teams, product management, and QA resources. This role demands hands-on involvement in testing, automation development, and ensuring alignment with quality, functionality, and performance requirements. You will be responsible for maintaining and updating automations, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and acting as a subject matter expert on QA processes. The position requires strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in software quality assurance
• Proven expertise in test planning, execution, and reporting, with a strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG) and test management platforms (e.g., Jira, TestRail) including ability to write tests
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) including ability to improve/add automations
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across teams
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to understand the purpose of a given feature and use that to create test plans
• Ability to communicate with the team effectively, understanding the work that’s happening, and the goals being pursued, providing feedback in the planning stages as well as clear feedback on QA needs and test failures
• Ability to read and write python and PHP with good understanding. Ability to write python and/or PHP at a basic level, with a focus on test automation
• Skill using REST and GraphQL APIs
• Understanding and ability to use CLI/SSH, shell scripts, databases (SQL), and virtualization
• QA mindset, able to review a feature and think of extra use cases/tests to shake out bugs
• An orientation toward learning, problem solving, and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and manage a comprehensive QA strategy for the team, writing Quality Acceptance Criteria for tickets
• Oversee the QA work happening on the team
• Perform QA on the team’s development tickets, write automations to test the team’s tickets
• Review unit test and integration tests in unit test frameworks (i.e. pytest) and provide suggestions or code to improve coverage
• Ensure good QA test coverage between the unit-test style test automations and BDD style test automations
• Performing release testing on team assets that are included or available in new SL1 releases. are primarily Low Code Tools, the Snippet Framework, and the PowerPack Engine
• Review any test automation failures, finding the cause and helping the team resolve any issues. If the test is faulty, improve it
• Maintain and update automations for build verifications, release testing, and any other similar testing
• Maintain QA on code bases written in python and PHP
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, UX designers) to understand requirements, define testing scope, and maintain quality standards
• Design and execute test plans and cases, covering all aspects of the product, including functional, usability, performance, and security testing
• Identify, document, and track issues through resolution using industry-standard defect tracking tools
• Establish test metrics, KPIs, and quality benchmarks, regularly reporting on quality status, trends, and risk to stakeholders
• Act as the subject matter expert on QA processes, providing guidance on best practices and industry standards
• Drive automation initiatives and strategies, ensuring a balance between automated and manual testing where appropriate
• Ensure testing practices align with ScienceLogic's compliance, security, and data protection standards

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Flexible Paid Time Off (FTO) so that you can take the time that you need to re-energize
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - take two days off per calendar year to volunteer with your preferred charitable organization
• 5-year Service Milestone Sabbatical
• Paid parental leave
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• HQ Office centrally located in Reston Town Center featuring a well-stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages, and catered lunch on Thursdays
• Regular virtual company-wide events, including cooking classes, yoga, meditation and more
• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!