Quality Engineer - Service Testing Automation

Kforce - Cincinnati, OH

Full-time

Cincinnati, OH

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Quality Engineer - Service Testing Automation role involves working in a fast-paced environment to ensure the quality of software applications through various testing methodologies. The position requires a highly experienced quality professional who can work independently, learn quickly, and contribute ideas to improve the QA process. The role focuses on developing and maintaining automation test scripts, executing tests, and validating application functionality while adhering to project timelines and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Effectively work in a fast-paced environment utilizing the Agile methodology
• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices
• Execute test scripts to validate correct functionality of application
• Use SQL and NoSQL for back-end database validation
• Perform various types of testing including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing as needed
• Participate in requirement and design review sessions; evaluate requirements and design docs from a quality test automation standpoint
• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis
• Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality
• Coordinate test script reviews with stakeholders as appropriate
• Adhere to requirement review, defect writing and test script writing guidelines
• Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions
• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards
• Develop and maintain good relationships with project team
• Multi-task to meet assignment deadlines
• Accurately estimate work assignments
• Show assertiveness
• Identify obstacles and roadblocks; and offer suggestions to work around obstacles
• Help drive and improve QA process within the team you are assigned

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Web services testing with any automation tool, Json, and Xml
• 2+ years of experience in Data Validation
• 2+ years of experience writing Rest Assured Tests OR Karate for API testing
• 2+ years of experience with Message Queues, Kafka
• 2+ years of experience in Service Virtualization
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud Deployments

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision insurance
• HSA
• FSA
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• ADD insurance
• paid time off for salaried personnel
• paid sick leave for hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project