The QA Engineer is responsible for designing and executing all functional testing activities for a broad range of applications and platforms. This role drives functional testing strategy with the proper mix of business knowledge and technical leadership. This role works closely with architects and technical leads to define the long-term strategy for repeatable functional testing activities within the organization. This role creates quality standards for products and testing systems for efficiency and reliability.

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
Develop and execute test plans and test cases for integration runs
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
Ensure test cases are appropriately structured for automation execution when applicable
Work with automation to incorporate new functionality into the automation test suite
Provide guidance to Associate Engineers to execute test sets assigned to them, develop their own, and effective defect reporting

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus.
3-5 years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing is a must.
Knowledge of Agile and Jira a must.
Experience in SQL scripting relational databases, Unit testing of Web applications
Excellent understanding of DB and behavior driven testing is required for this role.
Experience in working with software specifications and documentation.
Breaking the system and thinking out of the box while doing functional testing is a must.
Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and software releases is a must.
Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills
Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
Understanding of QA automation tools such as Selenium.
Should have worked in an onsite offshore model.
Excellent knowledge on ETL processes and data integrity testing.
Excellent knowledge of database level testing, API testing and accessibility testing.