SR Quality Engineer II

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer/Analyst II performs and leads testing of multiple, large, complex, or strategic software development applications using QA testing practices and frameworks. This role provides appropriate and timely status, metrics, and communication to stakeholders. As well, this role tests solutions in response to changing business or project needs. The Senior QA Engineer/Analyst II aids in the identification of continuous process improvement of QA processes. They also lead and own the improvements of testing standards and best practices cross team.

Key Areas of Responsibility

For multiple, large, complex, or strategic software projects:

• Perform analysis of business requirements for accuracy, completeness, redundancy, ambiguity, and testability.
• Define testing scope, approach, risks, and assumptions.
• Design, build, and prioritize test cases.
• Create and maintain the testing project schedule.
• Execute testing manual and automated.
• Report and communicate test status and metrics to project stakeholders.
• Lead efforts in development, recommendations for change, technological innovation, continuous improvement, and documentation of Software Quality Assurance processes, practices, and frameworks, assuring a high level of system readiness prior to production implementation.
• Identify and recommend changes to status reporting and quality metrics.
• Lead and/or participates in peer reviews of project deliverables.
• Participate in the technical review of project deliverables including requirement specifications, functional designs, technical designs, and other project documentation to ensure the testability of requirements.
• Work with development and user community to define and develop testing requirements to validate software solutions were built to specifications.
• Create and maintain a project testing schedule to track progress and ensures completion of testing within scheduled timeframes.
• Plan, develop, execute and maintain test cases.
• Conduct System Test and User Acceptance Test.
• Provide regular and timely status updates on testing progress including quality metrics.
• Document and report defects within the established process and tracking system.
• Manage defects reporting process for project.
• Coach and mentor junior QA Analysts and other stakeholders in Software Quality Assurance processes, practices, and business application functionality.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• 7 years of full life cycle Software Quality Assurance process experience (requirements analysis, decomposition, test case design, prioritization, risk analysis, test execution, metric reporting, etc.).
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent experience

Required Qualifications

• Track record of successfully leading multiple, or large-scale QA projects, including planning, estimating, and prioritizing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with project stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Understanding of multiple IT technical platforms, and application development methodologies.
• Experience with the full software development life cycle, testing methodologies, version control systems, and quality assurance.
• Demonstrable problem-solving and analytical skills with strong oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to interact with all disciplines of the IT organization and Business Partners.
• Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology. Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize.
• Ability to apply common sense in performing job.
• Ability to understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Non Functional testing experience including using established tools in the industry.
• Experience in the designing and implementation of Software Quality Assurance standards and practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in requirements analysis, design, risk analysis, and prioritization skills on multiple or large-sized software development projects.
• Demonstrated experience with system development life cycle methodologies.
• Experience with Hewlett-Packard Quality Center (HP QC).
• Automated Regression Testing
• Demonstrated experience in the design, and maintenance of automated regression testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in the execution and maintenance of performance regression test suites and project-specific testing.
• Expertise in designing complex SQL queries to create data access layers in automation solutions.
• Experience with business layer testing and system integration testing.
• Proficiency in architecting an automation solution and analyzing its design, development, and implementation.
• Excellent knowledge of software design techniques and automation coding practices.