Penske Automotive Group - Reading, PA
posted 6 months ago
About the position
As a Senior QA Tester at Penske, you will be stepping into an advanced level test position that plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of new features and supporting break-fix code releases. This position requires you to work closely with an agile development team, collaborating with product management, the Manager of QA - Testing, and software engineers to create and maintain comprehensive test plans. Your primary focus will be on test execution, formulating test plans, evaluating results, recommending solutions, and overseeing process improvements. In this role, you will participate in the development of testing strategies and take a hands-on approach in creating and maintaining test plans, ensuring the highest level of quality in our new development features. You will work collaboratively with a diverse team of Software Engineers, QA Managers, and product owners, as well as independently support break/fix code releases being deployed into production. Your responsibilities will include performing defect analysis to understand issues and potential root causes, formulating action plans to address larger issues, and preventing defects in the future. As a technical leader on the team, you will drive process improvements in manual testing methodologies through the adoption of new testing procedures and advanced tools. Your expertise will be essential in facilitating functional testing, regression testing, and UI testing across various platforms, including desktop applications, browsers, and mobile testing environments. You will also be responsible for maintaining documentation of test scripts, processes, and procedures, ensuring that software quality assurance follows standard operating procedures through measurements and process evaluations.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate functional testing, regression testing, UI testing for all new features for desktop application, browser, and mobile testing environments
- Develop complex test plans consistent with agile sprint development plans, actively participating at sprint zero to define entire sprint testing strategy
- Validate feature file flows created by automation testers
- Develop complicated test cases for advance level code in support agile sprints and 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 follow 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, ISTQB Foundations
- Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Process improvement experience
- Strong knowledge and understanding of SQL statements
- Understanding of 3 tier architecture
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies
- Experience with web services and APIs
- Proficiency in JIRA and Confluence
- Knowledge of 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 different browsers and devices
- Understanding of Agile testing methodologies
- Experience with root cause analysis and identifying concurrent issues
- Proficient in Microsoft Office or other desktop tools
- Ability to create efficient test cases and execute efficiently and effectively
