Senior Software Quality Engineer
Description Ascend Learning is a national leader in data driven, online educational solutions for learners, educators and employers in high-growth, licensure-driven professions spanning healthcare, fitness and wellness, skilled trades, insurance, and financial services. We are passionate about accelerating learning while impacting job readiness, employment success and employee retention with the belief that our work changes lives. Our culture is intentionally results-driven and selfless with a relentless focus on our customers. We believe in trust, transparency, freedom, and responsibility with a commitment to meritocracy, inclusion, and diversity of thought. Continual investment in our over 1400 employees is also a core principle realized through ongoing professional development and providing opportunities to grow, develop and lead. Ascend Learning is headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and remote workers in cities across the U.S. and in the U.K. Job Overview We are looking for a Senior Software Quality Engineer in our Clinical Health Quality Engineering organization. The Software Quality Engineer will be responsible for ensuring a product or service meets the established standards of quality including reliability, usability, and performance. To be successful in this role you should be incredibly thorough and able to help our company maintain the highest quality standards. This is a full-time position in our Leawood, KS office. Responsibilities & Duties Participate in all phases of testing cycle, including functional, Integration, Regression, Load and Performance testing Participate in Daily Standups, Iteration Planning, Backlog grooming, Bug triage etc. Create/Update Test Plan for major releases Create and execute functional and API testing where applicable and log bugs in Jira. Execute and maintain test Automation suite and debug failures. Ensures comprehensive test coverage of functional, API test cases, automation scripts by reviewing the requirement and test suites on a regular basis. Adhering to quality standards/process, best practice documents and time schedules provided. Work closely with offshore team member, communicate timelines, progress, project deliverable to offshore team. Track offshore work progress report to QE Manager, take corrective actions when required. Collaborates with core team and scrum team to ensure timely delivery of project Work with team members, software developers, scrum master and member of business unit to identify requirements, trouble-shoot test failures in the various test environments Anticipates program release problems and takes corrective action, escalating when needed, to resolve and achieve commitments. Identifies changing needs and priorities, crafts testing recommendations and communicates appropriately Works with team members to proactively identify, communicate functional and usability issues and risks that impede the execution and/or success of the project Provides status updates to manager and core team Required Skills Experience automating test scripts for both web and mobile applications. Experience with testing tools and frameworks such as Selenium. Skills & Abilities Experience using QA tools and techniques, test design and execution, test reporting, bug tracking systems Strong communication skills, onshore-offshore coordination experience. Working knowledge of browsers, client-server architectures, Web, Mobile-Web. Working knowledge of Software Testing Methodologies, Agile methodology. Knowledge of Load & Performance testing (Data & Traffic modeling) is a plus. Ability to review complex software design specifications with a focus on testability, test automation and quality improvements Ability to work with a multi-site / multi-time zone / multinational team including early morning and late-night hours. Understanding and hands on experience with Functional / UI / API Automation Frameworks, Continuous Integration Tools like GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins and Load testing tools. Hands on Experience using automated testing tools like Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, JUnit, Postman. Defining quality standards and metrics for the current project/product. Define testing strategy during several phases of test cycle. Technical acumen to understand underlying infrastructure. Experience working with all stakeholders to ensure that the quality metrics are reviewed, closed, and agreed upon. Experience is in the Education Domain is a Huge Plus. Education and Experience Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, engineering or equivalent. 5
years of experience working as a Software Quality Engineer.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Software Development, Quality AssuranceEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
years of experience working as a Software Quality Engineer.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification
Software Development, Quality AssuranceEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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