Senior QA Tester

Penske Logistics - Reading, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Reading, PA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Senior QA Tester at Penske, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of new features and supporting break/fix code releases in a fast-paced agile development environment. Your primary responsibilities will include creating and maintaining comprehensive test plans, executing tests, evaluating results, and recommending solutions to enhance the overall testing process. You will collaborate closely with product management, the Manager of QA - Testing, and software engineers to develop effective testing strategies and implement process improvements. In this advanced-level position, you will be expected to take a hands-on approach to testing, working both independently and as part of a diverse team. You will facilitate functional testing, regression testing, and UI testing across various platforms, including desktop applications, browsers, and mobile environments. Your expertise will be essential in developing complex test plans that align with agile sprint development cycles, actively participating in sprint planning to define the testing strategy for each sprint. Additionally, you will validate feature file flows created by automation testers, develop intricate test cases for advanced-level code, and coordinate test execution with development staff and other Agile team members. Your role will also involve performing defect analysis to identify root causes of issues and formulating action plans to prevent future defects. As a technical leader, you will drive process improvements in manual testing methodologies by adopting new testing procedures and advanced tools, ensuring that software quality assurance adheres to standard operating procedures through rigorous measurements and evaluations.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate functional testing, regression testing, and UI testing for all new features across desktop, browser, and mobile environments.
• Develop complex test plans consistent with agile sprint development plans, participating actively at sprint zero to define the entire sprint testing strategy.
• Validate feature file flows created by automation testers.
• Develop complicated test cases for advanced-level code in support of agile sprints and conduct complex analysis of test case results.
• Coordinate test execution with development staff and other Agile team members.
• Validate program logic and verify system flow.
• Identify and communicate advanced quality risks and plans for remediation.
• Maintain documentation of test scripts, processes, and procedures.
• Consult with Software Architects and make recommendations for resolution of problems.
• Ensure software quality assurance follows standard operating procedures through measurements and process evaluations.
• Define and drive process improvements in the procedures and methodologies for manual testing.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on the use of new manual testing tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field.
• 4-6 years of Application Testing experience.
• 4 years' experience writing and executing test cases for web-based/mobile applications.
• Testing training and certification, such as ISTQB Foundations.
• Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Process improvement experience.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of SQL statements, 3-tier architecture, Agile methodologies, web services, and APIs.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Familiarity with deployment methodologies.
• Expertise in Selenium and Zephyr testing tools.
• Highly proficient in the use of cloud testing environments, such as Sauce Labs and Browser Stack.
• Strong understanding of testing concepts and procedures.
• Understanding of how functions will work differently on various browsers and devices.
• Experience with Agile testing methodologies.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis and experience identifying concurrent issues.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office or other desktop tools.
• Ability to create efficient test cases and execute them effectively.