principal qa engineer

$130,000 - $150,000/Yr

Randstad - Atlanta, IN

Full-time - Principal

Atlanta, IN

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Principal QA Engineer is responsible for promoting and implementing software quality practices across development teams. This role involves mentoring quality assurance staff, addressing quality issues through effective communication, and contributing to the establishment of software quality standards within the department.

Responsibilities

• Contribute in the creation of software quality standards for the overall department
• Effectively communicate current quality issues and desired future state goals
• Mentor other Software Quality staff members
• Research new tools and quality practices within the wider software quality communities outside of the company
• Contribute to software test effort estimation and ongoing progress tracking
• Communicate with development, design, and relevant business owners to obtain full and accurate understanding of intended software system functionality
• Review software prototype designs and provide early feedback from a software quality and usability perspective
• Analyze reference documentation and author test cases to provide proper coverage
• Participate in the generation/management of required test data
• Experience with cross browser and mobile platform testing
• Ability to perform initial high level defect isolation and re-creation
• Basic browser regression test automation code development skills
• Basic usage of Git code management tools

Requirements

• Proficient in Agile development methodology, implemented via Scrum
• Proficient in Git workflow
• Proficient in automated testing tools such as TestCafe
• Ten (10)+ years in software engineering and testing
• Bachelor's degree

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance
• Incentive and recognition program
• 401K contribution