QA Engineer

Ltts - Englewood, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Englewood, NJ

About the position

The Quality Engineer position at LTTS involves working within the Digital Quality & Performance engineering team to ensure high-quality user experiences for news media technology products. The role requires expertise in test tools and processes, with a focus on both manual and automated testing across various platforms. The engineer will collaborate with product and engineering teams to enhance product quality and performance, while also mentoring junior engineers and maintaining documentation for knowledge retention.

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 in order 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 by leveraging CI/CD Pipeline
• Work both independently and in close collaboration with others in the team and across the business to achieve quality & performance engineering goals
• Bring the 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 co-ordination, if needed

Requirements

• B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering - QE testing
• 3+ years of experience in testing news website, subscription products, SEO, ads, metrics, video players (live/on-demand) & streaming media content on desktop & mobile platforms
• 3+ years of 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