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The Principal Software Quality Assurance / Testing Engineer is a highly skilled subject matter expert, responsible for managing every phase of the development process to ensure that the design and software adhere to company standards. This role consults various stakeholders in the development and execution of exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality.
Job Responsibility
Responsible for ensuring the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases
Leads Agile-related user story review meetings and/or works with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality
Partners with the required user community (such as Regions or the Product Owner) to understand business requirements and upholds quality of for each release by ensuring a comprehensive end-to-end testing coverage
Develops and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions
Responsible for reviewing system requirements and tracking of quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts)
Leads the performing and documenting of risk analysis and record test progress and results
Performs regression testing when bugs are resolved
Works cross functionally to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts
Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness
Makes recommendations that will enable innovation and streamline overall testing processes
Works cross functionally to research new tools, technologies, and testing processes as well as user interfaces for consistency and functionality
Responsible for documenting established QA processes and best practices in Agile Scrum development methodology and influence the continuous improvement of the QA activities
Performs any other related task as required
Requirements
Extended expertise in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
Interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
Team player with good attention to detail
Excellent ability to understand and analyze complex systems
Extended understanding of SQL and scripting
Extended understanding of software development process
Extended expertise in agile development such as Scrum
Extended understanding of software integrated development environments
Extended ability to handle client and customer issues tactfully and professionally
Extended understanding of object-oriented programming
Extended demonstrated hands-on testing experience in AGILE/DevOps Methodology, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
Extended demonstrated work experience in software development
Extended demonstrated work experience in software quality assurance
Expert in working in an Agile/Scrum development process
Nice to have
Expertise in performance and/or security testing is a plus
Extended demonstrated experience working within a geographically dispersed company is desirable
Relevant certifications such as Leading SAFe would be advantageous