Request ID: 9552-1
Duration: 12 months
Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Job Description:
The Senior Software QA Engineer is tasked with developing mission critical software. To succeed in this position, you will need proven ability to organize workload, priorities, and complete tasks on time. You will work in a team environment and need to effectively communicate both within your team and to external teams. As a Senior member of the team, you will act as a resource for other software QA engineers, liaison between department manager and other analysts, as well as the business team. This position is for a full stack QA with a strong emphasis on back-end processes. This is a 50% green field/50% brown field development project. We are building scalable, extensible, high volume, high availability software workflows.
Job Responsibilities
- Ensure that new and existing product functionality are reliable, defect free and function as intended
- Create, document, verify and execute component-level to user acceptance test plans and test cases, leveraging and advancing our test automation practice as well as manual testing when appropriate.
- Work closely with business partners and the application development team in eliciting project requirements to create test cases
- Use Agile Scrum SDLC methodologies and participate in Scrum ceremonies
- Participate in the development and reporting of test metrics; items such as test confidence and test coverage reports
- Review requirements specifications and identify gaps and inconsistencies
- Work closely with development engineers, business analysts, and other QA team members to identify, report, and troubleshoot defects; verify problem fixes in a detailed, efficient, and timely manner
- Provide leadership among other Quality Assurance Analyst positions, facilitating a lead role in providing direction and working directly with the Engineering Manager.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years' experience in software Quality Assurance and testing roles emphasizing both "White Box” and "Black Box” testing strategies as well as test automation
- 3+ years' experience in database testing with the ability to read, write, and execute basic SQL queries
- 3+ years' experience working in an Agile software development life cycle methodology
- Must have at least 3+ years' experience in the software testing of multi-tier client/server applications
- Ability to understand software development framework, architecture concepts, and terminology
- Experience in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Azure DevOps technologies
- Innate project leadership; desires accountability and responsibilities to promote the success of our company
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Excellent analytical and organizational skills; Strong deductive reasoning
- Ability to multi-task and work separate projects in a fast paced & dynamic company environment and extremely tight timelines
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with limited direction or as part of a team
Pre-Employment Requirement
All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About APR Staffing
APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions and Data Resource Group. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.
