Software QA Engineer

Our client has an immediate job opportunities for Software Quality Assurance Engineers to join their team in Rochester, NY testing software solutions to support their revolutionary products including a ground up rebuild in early stages. Qualified candidates for this job opportunity will work closely with development Peers, Team Product Owners, and others in Software Quality Assurance to design, develop, and execute both manual and automated test suites standing for the voice of the customer at all times. Candidates must have a passion for software quality including why Software Quality Assurance interests them. Must have strong knowledge and experience of being the interface with skilled developers while strongly supporting the team’s strong commitment to Quality. Software Quality Assurance is much more than pass or fail.

Responsibilities

· Analyze user stories, use cases, and requirements for validity and feasibility. Must have the ability to think outside the normal box. Analytical thinking where the need to see the entire system and how the features will affect the entire system.

· Participate in all agile team ceremonies such as daily stand up, planning sessions, and team retrospectives.

· Provide detailed estimates for all testing tasks related to a user story.

· Collaborate with project team members to develop effective test strategies and plans that include testing at all levels of the technology stack (UI, API, database).

· Execute both manual and automated tests and report results.

· Report bugs and errors to the project team and convey detailed troubleshooting analysis. Having the ability to define what you find and speak openly to what you find is necessary to this role.

· Execute all levels of testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, Post-Release) and more importantly be able to name the “what testing is missing” with why it is needed.

· Nice to Have

o Design and develop automated test scripts using a proprietary framework.

o Experience to Evaluate application performance and report variances from standards without expensive additional software.

o Earlier experience in Agile, “Test Left”, Test Driven Design methodologies is a plus.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

Required

· 5 years Software QA/Tester experience

· Experience with user stories and/or use cases (test cases)

· Experience with both manual and automated testing

· 2 years XML experience

· 2 years JSON experience

· 2 years SQL experience

· Experience in an Agile environment

Desired

· Bachelors or Associates Degree

· Full stack testing experience- front end (UI), middleware (API), backend (database)

· Functional, Integration, Regression, Post-Release testing experience

· Experience designing, developing, and executing automated test scripts

· Experience with test plans

· Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Test Manager, and Visual Studio, or other similar tools.

· Experience on Windows or Linux