QA Engineer 2

Public Partnerships - Sacramento, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Sacramento, CA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

Public Partnerships LLC is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for validating requirements, designing new software components, and ensuring the quality of our products through rigorous testing processes. As the nation's largest Financial Management Service provider, we assist individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and aging adults in managing their long-term home care. Your contributions will directly impact the lives of those we serve by ensuring that our software solutions are reliable and effective. You will track the status of projects and communicate progress effectively to project management, reporting and managing defects using our defect management system. As part of an agile delivery team, you will support planning and estimating tasks, create detailed test cases, and perform manual testing at various phases of the development process. Your role will also involve system-level integration and regression testing to ensure product readiness, advocating for quality-centered engineering best practices throughout the organization. In addition to your testing responsibilities, you will investigate and reproduce customer-reported issues to determine root causes, contributing to special quality-related initiatives aimed at improving our processes. This may include investigating and qualifying new tools, as well as developing test frameworks or techniques as needed. Your work will be crucial in maintaining the high standards of quality that our clients expect from us.

Responsibilities

• Provides validation for requirements, designs, and new software components.
• Tracks status and communicates progress effectively to project management.
• Reports and tracks defects using the defect management system.
• Supports planning and estimating tasks as part of an agile delivery team.
• Creates detailed test cases and performs manual testing at different phases and times.
• Performs system-level integration and regression testing to ensure product readiness.
• Follows and advocates for quality-centered engineering best practices.
• Investigates and reproduces customer-reported issues to help determine root cause.
• Contributes to special quality-related initiatives to improve processes, investigates, and qualifies tools, develops test frameworks or techniques as needed.

Requirements

• Experience creating detailed test cases and following testing best practices.
• Methodical and inquisitive mindset for testing beyond the obvious and uncovering evasive bugs.
• Experience with modern web technologies/frameworks.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, and professional business demeanor.
• Ability to work collaboratively, and even lead testing initiatives.
• Highly motivated, able to learn quickly, and accountable for committed results.
• Adept and passionate for learning the latest testing technologies, tools, and frameworks.
• Experience with ticketing systems such as ADO (Microsoft Azure DevOps) or Jira.
• Experience with load and performance testing.
• Strong Microsoft Office applications skills (preferably with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access).
• Experience creating and implementing test frameworks.
• Demonstrated understanding of the software product development life cycle.
• Debugging skills: knowledge of SQL for analysis and debugging.
• Iterative testing experience (Agile/Scrum experience a plus).
• UAT exposure with client meetings.