Specialist QA Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced QA Engineer to ensure product stability by collaborating with QA Lead, Development and Portfolio teams. You will design test plans, write test cases, develop automation, and report results for projects.

The role requires strong hands-on testing, API and performance testing, and experience with Selenium, Java, TestNG, and CI tools. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to testing strategies across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on software testing experience.
• At least 4 years in test automation using Selenium with Java and TestNG.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Solid understanding of OOP concepts.
• Experience in API testing (SoapUI, Postman, Rest Assured) and SQL databases.
• Experience with performance testing using JMeter.
• Experience with version control systems (SVN, Git) and CI tools.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and cross-functional remote teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication; proactive and self-driven.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases with detailed evidence.
• Design and implement automation and report test results to teams.
• Collaborate with QA Lead, Development, and Portfolio teams early in design.
• Perform end-to-end testing across enhancements and impacted areas.
• Maintain and debug automation scripts within the existing TestNG framework.
• Mentor fellow Quality engineers and evangelize testing best practices.
• Publish test status reports at milestones.

Skills

Software testing

Test automation

Selenium with Java

TestNG

OOP concepts

API testing

SQL

JMeter

Git

SVN

CI tools

Agile

Communication

Self-starter

Learning new skills

Tools

SoapUI

Postman

Rest Assured

SQL

JMeter

Job description

Job purpose:

The candidate will be responsible to ensure that a product is completely stable and . this needs to be accomplished by working closely with QA Lead and team, Development & Portfolio teams through early design of test plan, test cases, automation and reporting results to the concerned team for the assigned projects/products.

Minimum requirements:

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Software Testing.
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in test automation in Selenium with Core Java using standard frameworks (Hybrid, Keyword, TestNG).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Solid understanding of OOPs concepts
• Experience in API Testing using SoapUI, Postman, Rest assured; or Database Testing skills with SQL
• Experience in Performance testing tools - Jmeter
• Experienced with version control systems like SVN, Git.
• Know-how to set up Continuous Integration tools will be an advantage.
• Knowledge or working experience of agile methodology
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional remote teams.
• Self-starter and proactive with a strong sense of urgency to get the job done on time with quality.
• Demonstrate ability to learn new skills and improve upon current skills quickly within a continually changing, challenging environment.
• Review and analyze business requirements, user stories and architecture diagrams
• Gain product and business understanding and apply it in testing activities to improve test coverage and identify defects
• Develop and execute test plan, test cases with the requisite details and capture test evidence.
• Test planning and execution with focus to ensure end to end testing considering enhancements, impacted areas
• Impacted areas analysis and enhancing manual, automation regression test packs
• Analyze, plan and prepare test data to be used for manual, automated test execution
• Adherence to the established processes and best practices.
• Identify defects and track them through the defect life cycle.
• Develop, Maintain, and debug automation scripts using the existing TestNG based framework for Change and Regression.
• Enhance framework and create reusable methods on need basis.
• Conduct effective self-review of own deliverables and peer reviews.
• Publish test status reports on-demand or as per defined milestones in line with the established framework.
• Work with diverse, distributed teams and collaborate with internal teams.
• Mentor fellow Quality engineers, evangelizing best practices of testing, automation and technical processes.

Originally posted on Himalayas