Senior QA Engineer
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Job Summary:
As the Sr. QA Engineer, you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization. You will work closely with product development engineers and SRE with a diverse background and collaboratively build automation testing practices. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.
Job Responsibilities:
As the Sr. QA Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Automation Testing
Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices
Designing and developing QE artifacts for automation frameworks like Cypress
Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards
Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage
Automating test cases based on product requirements
Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)
Internal Tools Ownership
Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage
Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic
Report and escalate issues with test environments. Must be able to work closely with Dev Ops and the internal clients to support deployment and testing of parallel releases for all channels and platforms
Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes
Project Tasks
Drive quality engineering activities within scrum teams and teach teams how to ensure better Quality (test case preparation/execution/automation, environment setup, installation, etc)
Task prioritizations and project level estimation
Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress.
Requirements gathering required for projects.
Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed
Providing estimates and plans required for feature development
Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed
Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning
Drive non-functional testing within team to test performance/migrations/data testing/workers/schedulers
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Mentor the Fellow Associate QE to grow in direction of QE
Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.
Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements
Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed
Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards
Job Skills & Experience:
8+ experience as Software QE
5+ years of experience of related experience working in a production environment
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
Develop, maintain and execute smoke, regression, functional, performance, and other test cases.
Proficiency in any programming language/coding, including Python, Ruby, and JavaScript
Experience and good understanding of UI automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium along with javascript/typescript/ruby
Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing(automation)
Experience with basic SQL
Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices.
Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing
Experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
Experience with non functional testing - cross browser testing, migration testing, security, performance and load testing
Familiarity with rails console(Ruby on rails application)
Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques.
Ability to recognize errors and assess risks within applications and or processes
Capacity to perform independently & efficiently in a fast-paced environment
Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker), Kubernetes, Docker Compose.
Preferred Skills:
Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams
Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
Knowledge of microservices architecture
Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department
About the job
Senior QA Engineer
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
Job Summary:
As the Sr. QA Engineer, you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization. You will work closely with product development engineers and SRE with a diverse background and collaboratively build automation testing practices. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.
Job Responsibilities:
As the Sr. QA Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Automation Testing
Adhere to all aspects of QE processes and methodologies and ensure effectiveness and alignment to industry best practices
Designing and developing QE artifacts for automation frameworks like Cypress
Achieving QE objectives and deliverables to customers based on quality standards
Prepare, review, and maintain testing documents (test plan, test cases, test reports,) to ensure complete test coverage
Automating test cases based on product requirements
Manage proper execution by the QE team on different types of testing (functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc)
Internal Tools Ownership
Building QE dashboard to report health metrics of code quality and testing coverage
Enhancing Synthetic monitoring practices with tools like NewRelic
Report and escalate issues with test environments. Must be able to work closely with Dev Ops and the internal clients to support deployment and testing of parallel releases for all channels and platforms
Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes
Project Tasks
Drive quality engineering activities within scrum teams and teach teams how to ensure better Quality (test case preparation/execution/automation, environment setup, installation, etc)
Task prioritizations and project level estimation
Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress.
Requirements gathering required for projects.
Manage or prepare customer demo presentations for project deliverables when needed
Providing estimates and plans required for feature development
Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed
Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning
Drive non-functional testing within team to test performance/migrations/data testing/workers/schedulers
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Mentor the Fellow Associate QE to grow in direction of QE
Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.
Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements
Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed
Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards
Job Skills & Experience:
8+ experience as Software QE
5+ years of experience of related experience working in a production environment
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related qualifications
Develop, maintain and execute smoke, regression, functional, performance, and other test cases.
Proficiency in any programming language/coding, including Python, Ruby, and JavaScript
Experience and good understanding of UI automation testing and frameworks like Cypress, Selenium along with javascript/typescript/ruby
Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing(automation)
Experience with basic SQL
Expert knowledge of software testing, quality improvement, quality process, quality assurance methodologies, and best practices.
Experiences in web services, batch/extract file processing, microservice api level testing
Experience in Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
Experience with non functional testing - cross browser testing, migration testing, security, performance and load testing
Familiarity with rails console(Ruby on rails application)
Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques.
Ability to recognize errors and assess risks within applications and or processes
Capacity to perform independently & efficiently in a fast-paced environment
Synthetic Monitoring and Metrics gathering with tools like NewRelic, GCP Logging, Datadog
Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker), Kubernetes, Docker Compose.
Preferred Skills:
Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams
Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
Knowledge of microservices architecture
Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department