Senior IT QA Automation Tester

$84,000 - $94,000/Yr

Ryder - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time - Mid Level

Salt Lake City, UT

Rental and Leasing Services

About the position

The Senior IT QA Automation Tester is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of software products through meticulous testing and analysis in a multi-product microservice architecture. This role leads testing efforts by designing, implementing, and executing test plans, test cases, and test automation frameworks in an Agile and CI-powered environment. The Senior IT QA Automation Tester identifies software issues, collaborates with development teams to resolve bugs, and ensures the final product meets both functional and non-functional requirements, such as performance, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Develop Quality Scope/Strategy
• Develop test cases in a timely manner
• Execute test cases and evaluate results against expected results
• Retest resolved defects on each release and maintain test cases and documentation
• Participate in Quality reviews and validation of requirements, architecture diagrams, acceptance criteria and other related documents
• Produce all required project documentation related to the Quality activities in accordance with the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE)
• Assist Quality Manager and Quality Lead with enhancements to current methodology
• Assist with development of Quality Strategy and scope
• Assist with Quality Project Plan & Budget Development
• Establish appropriate quality gates
• Prepare and give presentations related to Quality activities to business users and project team
• Gather project requirements and specifications from vendors, project managers and end-users
• Oversee project test planning and execution
• Coordinate all testing efforts including the setup and use of testing environment
• Participate, as required, in a hands-on role, contributing with technical/functional expertise
• Ensure that releases adhere to established quality standards and measurements
• Track project workload and ensure that projects adhere to proposed schedule
• Communicate project status to all appropriate and interested parties
• Anticipate and address project obstacles
• Issue Resolution/Escalation
• Recognize and communicate individual and team contributions
• Coordinate and participate in post-implementation reviews
• Liaison with application or customer verticals, product teams on a regular basis to ensure that upcoming work is planned
• Perform or assist with planning, development and execution of test automation
• Perform or assist with planning, development and execution of performance test
• Foster the team environment through active, hands-on participation and through coaching and mentoring
• Encourage sharing of ideas and consideration of all viewpoints among the team members
• Provide challenge & direction to the team to help achieve high performance
• Review/Validation of team member test cases and test results as needed
• Review compliance with current standards and procedures
• Identify, improve, and implement standards for Quality
• Assist team members on best practices
• Maintain Quality Tools as needed
• Provide team with quality techniques and tools

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering/technology
• Three (3) to five (5) years or more quality engineering, software testing field
• Three (3) to five (5) years or more quality assurance, quality engineering, process and procedure
• Testing tools like Selenium, Tosca, Cypress, Jmeter, Load Runner Intermediate
• Azure DevOps (ADO) and test manager feature Intermediate
• Understanding of agile Software development methodologies, values and procedures Intermediate
• Database Testing Intermediate
• Able to develop, maintain and execute functional test automation scripts Intermediate

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Strong Project Management Skills
• Must be flexible and motivated and work well as part of a team
• Must be a quick learner
• Sets quality standards and mentors team regarding quality and best practice

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance options
• Paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave
• Tax-advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan