Quality Assurance Engineer

Requirements:

• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates; prioritizing work with general direction/minimal supervision.
• Expertise in, and owning the testing capabilities across multiple programs/projects and communicate and influence the stakeholders to have collaborated and unified development, processes and initiatives across organization.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, design automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implement scalable test solutions.
• Develop high quality test engineering best practices, test strategy and principles.
• Devise and execute training, where appropriate, to develop and elevate skills within the team.
• Partner with Software Engineers, UX/UI, quality Engineers, Product Managers to deliver high performing quality customer experiences that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity.
• Participate in automation script code reviews and provide guidance on automation best practices.
• Responsible for helping to identify gaps and needs of the agile team; including resources, skills, resource allocation, task assignment and delegation.
• Coordinate various test-related activities for project delivery; identifying task dependencies, test schedules, creation of test data and utilization of test environments.
• Develop and monitor test metrics and provide timely communication to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Research, identify and implement newer testing technologies.
• Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on identified risks and testing results.
• Consistently demonstrates regular, dependable attendance & punctuality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar.
• 8+ years of experience in QA and/or Development.
• Nice to have experience in retail/ecommerce domain.
• 3+ years of experience in using automation tools such as Playwright or Cypress and should be comfortable to program as needed
• Understands the concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and their significance
• 2+ years of experience working with a Point-of-Sale system
• Familiarity with AI tools such as using Copilot to accomplish tasks
• Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.
• Demonstrated skills using code repositories like GitHub.
• Experience with JIRA for project management and defect tracking.
• Experience leading ambiguous situations, dealing with IT issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure project deliverables on time and within budget.
• Experience with a variety of test tools and software testing practices, including developing, implementing, maintaining and managing manual/automated testing systems and environments.
• Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.
• Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills.
• Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles.
• Excellent presentation skills to present ideas and work to the team and organization.
• Experience presenting testing topics to quality assurance peer group internal and external to work.
• Insightful and logical problem isolation and solving skills.
• Results driven and goals-oriented.
• Walking, seating, talking, working on a computer, using a phone.
• Perform in a very focused and methodical manner with good time management skills.
• Able to independently adapt and thrive through change.
• Ability to lead projects individually and mentor team members.
• Ability to lead and take ownership of testing process and implement them.
• Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to handle multiple large projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.