Senior Quality Engineer

Role: Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Alpharetta GA (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Description:

How Youll Help Us:

• Our clients need digital solutions that will transform their business so they can succeed in todays hypercompetitive marketplace. As a team member in our Quality Engineering practice you will help make these digital solutions come to life by ensuring every deliverable is defect-free. You will routinely deliver automated testing solutions to clients that will impact their products customers and services.

How We Will Help You:

• Joining our Quality Engineering practice is not only a job but a chance to grow your career. We will make sure to equip you with the skills you need to implement enterprise-grade test automation and help your teams produce robust defect-free applications that you can be proud of. Whether it is providing you with training on quality assurance practices a new programming language test automation tools or helping you get certified in a variety of areas we will help you grow your skills so you can continue to deliver increasingly valuable work.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain an automation-first mindset and approach.
• Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
• Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
• Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First Contract First approach.
• Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation framework on project needs.
• Understand and follow business requirements identify gaps in the business requirements advice the client accordingly and helps the team in covering all business use cases.
• Able to define test strategy and leads the team in implementing it.
• Guide QEs on test plan approach tools and test automation scripting needs.
• Identify define and manage tools and processes for the team.
• Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
• Effectively use and guide the team on test management tool (test design execution reporting traceability matrix)
• Assist in implementation of the test management tool within the team.
• Establish generate and publish test execution & bug reports testing metrics trends etc.
• Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create set priority/severity retest close root cause analysis defect prevention)
• Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE data UI logs or environment issues etc.)
• Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
• Coordinate bug triage between business dev and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
• Drive and train team members to execute automated test cases (happy path edge cases negative complex business scenarios) for browser-based or mobile applications.
• Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path edge cases negative complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
• Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
• Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
• Actively participate in client meetings project-wide reviews of requirements system architecture and detailed design documents
• Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise level test automation tools.
• Manage lead and maintain physical virtualized and simulated test environments.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in designing and developing a new test automation framework from scratch using a test automation tool like Playwright/JavaScript/TypeScript or /Selenium/Cucumber/Java or Selenium/C#.net/Spec Flow or similar frameworks.
• 4 years of hands-on experience in software testing and writing test automation code in at least one programming or scripting language (JavaScript TypeScript Java C# and/or Python) and guide team members on technical front.
• 4 years of hands-on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP based APIs.
• 4 years of experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.
• 2 years of experience in messaging systems (AMQ WMQ or Kafka).
• 4 years of experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end-to-end tests automation.
• 4 years of experience on test management and defect tracking tools like Jira Azure DevOps HP ALM etc.
• 4 years of experience in driving defect management strategy (create set priority/severity retest close traceability reporting etc.)
• 2 years of experience in driving the team to implement automated test suites for all testing types (unit component API UI UAT E2E etc.)
• 3 years of hands-on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries and understands concepts like indexing schemas views etc.
• 2 years of experience in training team members to understand version control concepts.
• 2 years of experience in guiding the team on version control concepts tools and hands-on experience on commands and operations (like commit fetch push pull squash resolve merge conflicts etc.)
• 3 years of hands-on experience on at least one of the performance testing tools (e.g. JMeter K6 LoadRunner NeoLoad etc.).
• 1 years of experience in analyzing performance testing requirements and implementation of load stress endurance volume testing etc.
• 2 years of experience in leading the team on CI/CD pipeline implementation for automated tests suites. (in coordination with DevSecOps team)
• 2 years of experience in creating test plan for accessibility and security testing.
• 2 years of hands-on experience on cloud platforms (e.g. Azure AWS GCP)
• 1 year of understanding of Gen AI Gen AI tools (e.g. GitHub CoPilot) and experience in leveraging Gen AI in quality engineering space.
• Language requirement: English

Preferred Skills:

• Mobile test automation development is a big plus.
• Experience leading and working with cross-functional teams in fast-growing environment.
• Strong organizational skills and eager to tackle new challenges.
• Experience planning designing and implementing testing strategies and automation infrastructure for large scale system software.

Ideal Mindset:

• Lifelong Learner. You are always seeking to improve your technical and nontechnical skills.
• Team Player. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
• Communicator. You know how to communicate your design ideas to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders prioritizing critical information and leaving out extraneous