QA Engineer/Quality Engineer

E-Solutions Group - Englewood, NJ

Full-time

Englewood, NJ

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The QA Engineer/Quality Engineer role is focused on ensuring the quality and performance of software products through comprehensive testing strategies. This position involves creating test plans, automating tests, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve quality goals. The engineer will also mentor junior team members and participate in agile ceremonies to enhance the testing process.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level test effort estimate
• Create detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Set up a test harness to test functionality
• Conduct automation feasibility study, development & maintenance of API, functional, integration and load/performance scripts across platforms
• Build, deploy application & conduct manual and automated testing as per defined process
• Report and follow up of defects found until closure
• Analyze logs to understand the root causes of issues
• Participate in agile ceremonies - standups, planning sessions and retrospectives
• Perform automated nightly application regression & performance test
• Conduct Functional/Integration/Production testing leveraging CI/CD Pipeline
• Work independently and collaboratively with team members to achieve quality & performance engineering goals
• Bring quality consciousness, test leadership and customer advocacy
• Create and maintain HOWTOs and other materials for quality & performance engineering team
• Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
• Actively coach/mentor quality engineers
• Publish KPIs & metrics, ensure process compliance
• Onsite - Offshore coordination, if needed

Requirements

• B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
• Experience in software engineering - QE testing
• Experience in testing news websites, subscription products, SEO, ads, metrics, video players (live/on-demand) & streaming media content on desktop & mobile platforms
• Experience in software engineering - QE automation
• Proficient in Java
• Experience implementing automation frameworks - (Selenium WebDriver/Appium/TestNG/Junit)
• Experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics
• Experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
• Any certification related to QE/Process/Automation/Performance Test

Nice-to-haves

• Organized
• Analytical & methodical
• Process-driven
• Customer-centric
• Creative
• Problem-solver
• Purposeful
• Articulate
• Composed
• Empathetic
• Trusted
• Collaborative
• Passionate