QA Test Engineer

QA Test Engineer Salary: $56,250\-$75,000 a { text\-decoration: none; color: \#464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid \#e6e6e6; } tr th { background\-color: \#f5f5f5; } ### **Job Description** * Participate in developing and documenting user stories, including testing estimates and validation tests. * Develop, document, and maintain test strategies and test scenarios. * Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are thoroughly tested and that issues are clearly documented and consistently prioritized. * Manage the defect log and ensure issues are resolved, including validation of fixes. * Work with integration and build teams to manage software releases across Development, QA, and Production environments. * Evaluate product requirements to create, modify, and execute test cases for functional manual testing, and report results clearly and concisely to Agile team members. * Report and troubleshoot defects directly with developers and other members of the Agile team. * Effectively communicate test plans, test reports, results, and QA metrics to the team. * Perform manual testing across a variety of areas, including mobile and web applications, accessibility, analytics, and hardware/firmware. * Contribute to QA standards, guidelines, processes, and procedures as needed. * Participate in the analysis of major incidents and emergency changes to identify opportunities to improve software quality and strengthen test coverage. * Design and execute cross\-system integration and regression tests for each release. * Review automated QA test suites that can be provided to Reliability, Operations, or Production Support teams for operational validation of systems. * Assist with the management and maintenance of appropriate test environments. * Participate in Agile ceremonies and document and estimate the QA strategy for each user story or development task. ### **Qualifications** * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience. * 3\+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance within an Agile environment. * 1\+ year of experience with automated Software Quality Assurance practices, including BDD/TDD. * 2\+ years of experience working with Secure Development Lifecycle processes. * Experience with Identity and Access Management, including user registration, access provisioning, role\-based access control, and user de\-provisioning. * Experience performing QA for **consumer\-facing transactional applications, Point\-of\-Sale systems, and Software\-as\-a\-Service (SaaS) applications**. * Experience testing mobile websites and native mobile applications across iOS and Android. * Experience working with high\-availability architectures in large, high\-traffic environments. * Experience testing web applications developed using JavaScript, CSS, XHTML/HTML, or similar technologies. * Experience testing backend applications and APIs developed using Java and/or C\#, including environments utilizing SQL, NoSQL, messaging technologies, and caching technologies. * Experience testing applications with user interfaces implemented using Visual Basic or similar technologies. * Experience performing QA for web applications across multiple browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, and operating systems such as Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. * Strong understanding of network topologies and networking technologies. * Strong understanding of data management practices, including hands\-on experience with SQL. * Experience with full software development and deployment lifecycles using Agile practices. ### **Nice to Have** * Hands\-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, shell scripting, or similar technologies. * Experience with performance and load testing of web applications. * Experience using Splunk or similar observability/logging platforms to query application metrics and investigate operational behavior. * Experience with Kubernetes and container\-based application deployment and operations.