Job Description :
Roles and responsibilities will include:
Provide input on strategic test direction and planning.
Applies software quality best practices and procedures to design, influence, and drive quality and testability of software.
Perform automated web services testing of a web-based application using Selenium.
Act as a services testing engineer for a complex, SaaS based solution.
Review functional and technical documentation in order to derive requirements for the creation of test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
Execute all components of product testing such as functional, regression, end-to-end, etc.
Actively participate in establishing project plans, estimating work, and monitoring progress against milestones.
Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes.
Work as part of a scrum team to develop new features.
Define the testing scope with focus on backend automation
Adherence to consistent output of quality testing artifacts and testing services as well as adherence to quality methodologies
Participate in the review and analysis of business requirements, functional specification and design documents to ensure testability; reporting of gaps/discrepancies
Responsible for researching and improving quality testing productivity and effectiveness within the service testing domain
Predicts potential risks and identifies steps to minimize the impact of risks across area of responsibility
Provide testing estimations and metrics as required
Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of methodologies, templates, process/procedure as necessary
Requirements:
BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
At least 4+ years of testing experience in total
Experience with Windows based environments
Expertise in Webservice testing
Experience in writing Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Scripts
Experience in testing large scale complex enterprise level application leveraging web technologies
Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Solid Understanding of QA principles, processes, and methodologies
Excellent trouble-shooting skills with both technical and non-technical issues
About the project that this contractor will be working on and what is creating the need for this position?
Primary focus is automated regression test suite utilizing selenium
Primary objective for this role is to give an honest assessment of the current framework, plan where it needs to be, and execute it
They have a framework in place, but it needs some work
Typical day might look like:
There will be a fair amount of autonomy in this role
Working closely with the QA team
No people management, or process management beyond the day to day
Candidate needs to be a thought leader with Selenium
Scrum/Agile shop, 2-week sprints, their spring objectives are
Writing selenium tests, some manual testing aspect
80% in the Selenium realm
Top 3 Skills
Selenium
.NET
Automation experience
Interview Process:
Phone screen with the manager
In person meeting with team