QA Automation Engineer - Remote

Overview

The QA Automation Engineer is responsible for designing and executing overall testing strategy for a broad range of applications and platforms. This role drives the overall testing strategy with the proper mix of business knowledge and technical leadership.

In Short

• Organize and manage test design and implementation tasks on a project.
• Participate in requirements discussions and identify requirements that may be missing, wrong, or lack clarity.
• Develop and execute tests for end-to-end scenarios, reported customer facing issues, and other externally initiated sources.
• Conduct and report on analysis of test results and coverage factors.
• Ensure proper communication occurs with the project teams on test status, issues and risk to deployment.
• Work with development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.
• Provide guidance to Associate Engineers to execute test sets assigned to them, develop their own, and effective defect reporting.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline, or its equivalent plus 2 years of related experience.
• 7+ years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing.
• Hands on experience in QA automation tools such as Selenium.
• Knowledge of Agile and JIRA.
• Experience in 508 accessibility and performance testing.
• Excellent understanding of DB and behavior driven testing is required for this role.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.

Benefits

• Work in a forward-thinking team focused on driving enrollment goals.
• Opportunity to shape the testing strategy for various applications.
• Collaborate with architects and technical leads.
• Flexible working environment.
• Engage in continuous learning and professional development.