QA Engineer

Location: Dallas TX 75019 (Onsite Tuesday thru Thursday).

Duration: 6 month renewable contract

Note: Must have a car and require F2F Interview

Were looking for a Mid-Senior level QA Analyst who will be helping our website testing team.

Looking for someone with Retail and Salesforce Commerce cloud background
Interviews will be conducted in two rounds: one on Teams with HM and another Onsite with QA Manager

The Quality Assurance Analyst reports to Senior QA Manager as part of the Solution Delivery-IT team to develop well-defined test cases lead and perform rigorous manual and automation testing of software functionality investigate defects and thoroughly document all results. This role is responsible for the verification and validation of new features functionalities and enhancements for e-commerce website back-end and integrated internal and external applications.
This role works closely and collaboratively with users from all departments and is involved with all aspects of the corporate systems lifecycle including design development testing and support of the deployed solutions.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with IT Management Software developers and business users to identify testing requirements for new systems and modifications to existing systems.
• Collaborate with leadership business partners internal and external resources and QA team to drive strategic deliveries.
• Understand and advocate for Agile best practices for all disciplines.
• Design and execute manual test plans and scripts to ensure solution works as expected.
• Maintain traceability between test documentation and requirements.
• Define and utilize standards methods or metrics to determine product quality for release.
• Develop testing programs/scripts that address areas such as database impacts functionality performance reliability regression testing negative testing error or bug retests or usability.
• Document software defects and track them and report defects to software developers.
• Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files logs or code to determine breakdown source.
• Bug fix verification and validation.
• Lead and coordinate test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
• Manage test environment for integration testing activities.
• Provide feedback to developers on software usability and functionality.
• Develop document and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data data validation harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Collaborate and coordinate testing efforts with external solution provider partners.
• Lead and conduct Sprint Demos User Acceptance with At Home business users and obtain signoff.
• Provide post-implementation validation and support for all deliverables.
• Minimum 10 years of QA experience designing and executing test cases testing software and validating data for eCommerce websites and backend applications including order management systems.

• Minimum 7 years experience executing automation test scripts using industry standard automation and testing tools such as Selenium Soap UI Postman JMeter Appium Cucumber etc.
• Solid understanding of the Test Pyramid and ability to execute automated tests across all levels (Functional Integration and User Acceptance / end-to-end).
• Proficient understanding of both REST and SOAP web services and ability to develop automated testing for web services / interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience in maintaining and executing Automated testing scripts.
• Retail industry experience preferred especially related to any of the following areas: store operations warehouse distribution store allocation merchandising marketing accounting and finance.
• Expert understanding of the effects of enhancements test on downstream processes.
• Proficient end-to-end understanding and experience with knowledge of system development life cycles.
• Strong understanding and hands on experience working with fast phased Agile/SCRUM teams located onsite and offshore.
• Working ability to remain effective under stress and respond to pressure in a manner acceptable to others and the organization.
• Proficient ability to remain flexible and adapt to changing priorities with promptness efficiency and ease while maintaining a strong customer service focus.
• Consistently demonstrates a commitment to At Home policies and procedures including but not limited to attendance confidentiality conflict of interest and ethical responsibilities.
• Ability to take little direction and achieve quality results independently.
• Proficient ability to communicate effectively with others using written and spoken English including the ability to provide clear constructive direction and feedback to team members.
• Bachelors degree from an accredited program in Information Systems Computer Science or related field or equivalent year-for-year experience preferred.
• Operational knowledge of IBM iSeries JDA SAP PKMS application development environments a plus.