QA Engineer

$114,400 - $114,400/Yr

Spectraforce Technologies - Newark, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Newark, NJ

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The QA Engineer will be responsible for designing, creating, testing, and deploying test-driven solutions across various technology domains. This role requires strong problem-solving abilities, effective communication skills, and a solid analytical mindset to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Designing, writing, and executing automated test scripts using Selenium & Cucumber for API Automation.
• Maintaining and enhancing existing automated test scripts and frameworks to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Conducting UI & back-end automation testing.
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD processes.
• Staying updated with industry trends and best practices in test automation.
• Developing Quality Management plans and test strategies for each sprint/release.
• Reviewing test plans and conducting peer reviews of plans & test cases.
• Collaborating with Product owners to ensure business requirements are met and test cases are developed according to standards.
• Updating Quality Tools with requirement traceability, test cases, test sets, and defects according to QA standards.
• Creating and executing user stories tests (Smoke, Functional Integration, Regression testing) and logging defects.
• Engaging with the Development Team in defect resolution and leading defect review calls.
• Assisting with Non-functional QA phases (Performance, Security, Accessibility).
• Providing guidance around QA strategies, proactive governance, and risk management for quality delivery of platform applications.
• Collaborating across scrum teams and testing teams to ensure success by applying best practice principles and techniques.
• Participating in self-development and training.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in testing execution and control.
• Expertise in web-based and mobile testing, with knowledge of J2EE applications testing.
• Experience with testing RESTful micro-services architecture on the cloud.
• Understanding of cloud databases and NoSQL concepts (DynamoDB, Aurora) including caching (ElastiCache) and SQL for RDBMS.
• Good working knowledge of test automation processes, concepts, and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Jmeter, FitNesse, Postman, SoapUI, Protractor, Cucumber, and Typescripting.
• Experience with multiple development methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) and tools (JIRA, Confluence, MIRO).
• Experience with ETL tools (e.g., DataStage, Informatica) for data sourcing, transformation, and validation.
• Experience with Unix and scripting.
• Experience with developing and executing fast test scripts that are easily reusable and maintainable.
• Experience with Jenkins and integrating into CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of AWS technologies (e.g., Lambda, DynamoDB, Mongo, Glue, Athena, Parquet file format).

Benefits

• ACA compliant health benefits
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance
• Commuter benefits
• 401K plan with matching
• Referral bonus program
• Paid sick leave when required by law
• Unpaid leave