QA Software Tester III

Beacon Hill Staffing Group - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The QA Software Tester III will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software applications by reviewing both business and technical requirements. This position is essential for verifying that the requirements are clear, complete, and testable. The tester will be responsible for comprehensive test planning for both new and existing software applications, ensuring that all types of testing are covered to maintain high-quality standards. This includes feature/functionality testing, deployment and configuration testing, performance testing, integration testing, and usability testing. The QA Software Tester III will track coverage, progress, and results of testing using software application life-cycle management tools. In addition to planning and executing tests, the QA Software Tester III will develop and support harnesses that enable rapid, repeatable, and reportable test execution. A significant part of the role involves automating test scenarios with the goal of reducing the time and cost of testing throughout the application life-cycle while improving test coverage and depth. The tester will closely monitor the quality of applications, assessing their readiness for release by collaborating directly with the development team to ensure that any issues are identified and resolved promptly. Furthermore, the QA Software Tester III will monitor software quality issues that arise post-release, triaging these issues and working with the development team to expedite necessary fixes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for test planning for new and existing software applications.
• Conducts all types of testing needed to ensure a high-quality application, including feature/functionality, deployment and configuration, performance, integration, and usability testing.
• Tracks coverage, progress, and results of testing in software application life-cycle management tools.
• Develops and supports harnesses enabling rapid, repeatable, and reportable test execution.
• Automates test scenarios to reduce the time and cost of testing and improve test coverage and depth.
• Tracks application quality and readiness for release by collaborating with the development team to expedite issue resolution.
• Monitors software quality issues detected after release, triages issues, and works with the development team to expedite fixes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading and managing testing efforts for large enterprise/IT projects across multiple teams.
• Proven success in developing automated testing.
• Strong general IT application and networking knowledge, including load balancing, networking, active directory, .net applications, messaging middleware, and virtualization technologies such as VMWare vSphere.
• Basic SQL experience, with the ability to create complex queries to analyze data, backup and restore data, and model and create or alter data as needed to support testing scenarios.
• Development background with 4+ years of programming or test automation development experience.
• Bachelor's degree from a 4-year accredited university in Computer Science, CIS/MIS, or equivalent experience.