Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote, 9-Month Contract)

This is a remote position.

• Reporting to Lead QA and Collaborate with software and product designers to determine and define QA parameters.
  
• Estimate, prioritize, and coordinate testing activities throughout the development lifecycle.
  
• Develop, execute, and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts using open-source tools.
  
• Create, document, and maintain detailed, comprehensive test plans and test cases.
  
• Maintain and monitor third-party plugins, Nuget Packages, Libraries, JS Plugins, etc., including regular updates, end-of-life, breaking changes, and dependencies.
  
• Produce monthly reports that include code coverage, code quality, bugs rate per developer, applying the agreed test practices, and progress on achieving KPIs reporting to the QA Lead.
  
• Conduct AI testing, including model validation, input/output testing, bias testing, and accuracy verification of ML/AI components.
  
• Work with external entities, including 3rd party integrations, tech partners, and customers, to identify roles and responsibilities that go beyond the internal tasks.
  
• Investigate and report root causes of test failures and bugs, and ensure corrective actions are implemented in coordination with the QA Lead.
  
• Conduct regression, integration, unit, usability, and system testing across multi-threaded and multi-component systems.
  
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure software quality.
  
• Maintain quality assurance documentation, including test reports, test plans, defect reports, test automation reports, quality metrics reports, compliance reports, configuration management reports, and audit reports.
  
• Stay current with QA tools, emerging test methodologies, and industry trends.
  
• Create testing documents.
  
• Troubleshoot quality issues and modify test procedures as needed, updating the QA Lead on progress.
  
• Conduct analysis checks on product specifications.
  
• Create Quality Assurance reports for the QA Lead and management.
  
• Ensure the successful deployment of products into the market, and on different environments (Cloud, On-premises, mobile, API, etc...).
  
• Respond to requests from the QA Lead, design team, and management.
  

Requirements

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in QA roles.
  
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming (C++, C#, .NET).
  
• Hands-on experience with scripting languages (Python, MAUI, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl).
  
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress).
  
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases.
  
• Proficient in API testing (REST/SOAP), automation, and integration testing.
  
• Experience with testing in cloud environments.
  
• Experience with automated load, stress, and performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
  
• Experience with security and penetration testing tools (e.g., OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite).
  
• Extensive experience with various types of testing including unit, system, integration, user acceptance, regression, usability, and end-to-end testing.
  
• Knowledge of basic Windows system administration.
  
• Debugging and crash log analysis/review.
  
• Comfortable building and maintaining test systems from scratch.
  
• Experience with virtual environments such as VMWare.
  
• Innovative, analytical approach to solving complex test problems and troubleshooting.
  
• Strong ability to work in a fast-paced environment and ability to multitask with ease.
  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  

Benefits

• Demonstrated ability to organize QA tasks and manage incident information effectively to improve product and process quality.
  
• Solid prior experience in QA.
  
• Fluency in additional languages is considered an advantage.