What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Automation Tester position at Emmis Corporation?
Summary
The IT QA Automation Tester is responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of software products through meticulous testing and analysis. This role leads testing efforts by designing, implementing, and executing test plans, test cases, and test automation frameworks in an Agile and CI-powered environment. The IT QA Automation Tester identifies software issues, collaborates with development teams to resolve bugs, and ensures the final product meets both functional and non-functional requirements, such as performance, security, and scalability. Reports to Development manager. Interacts with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers and Business Users for Projects.
Essential Functions
- Develop Quality Scope/Strategy
- Develop test cases in a timely manner
- Execute test cases and evaluate results against expected results
- Retest resolved defects on each release and maintain test cases and documentation
- Participation in Quality reviews and validation of requirements, architecture diagrams, acceptance criteria and other related documents.
- Assist with enhancements to current testing methodology
- Subject matter expert for Quality process and tools used
Additional Responsibilities
- Assist with Quality Project Plan
- Establishing appropriate quality gates
- Oversee project test planning and execution
- Coordinating all testing efforts including the setup and use of testing environment
- Ensuring that releases adhere to established quality standards and measurements
- Communicating project status to all appropriate and interested parties
- Anticipating and addressing project obstacles
- Issue Resolution/Escalation
- Coordinates and participates in post-implementation reviews
- Perform or assist with planning, development and execution of test automation
- Perform or assist with planning, development and execution of performance test
- Review/Validation of team member test cases and test results as needed
- Reviews compliance with current standards and procedures
- Identifying, improving, and implementing standards for Quality
- Maintenance of Quality Tools as needed
Skills and Abilities
- Excellent documentation and communication skills
- Strong Project Management Skills required
- Must be flexible and motivated and work well as part of a team
- Must be a quick learner
- Sets quality standards and mentors team regarding quality and best practice
Qualifications
- Three (3) to five (5) years or more quality engineering, software testing field required
- Three (3) to five (5) years or more quality assurance, quality engineering, process and procedure required
- Experience with testing tools like Selenium, Jmeter, DBUnit or equivalent software required
- Operational understanding of SQL and how to retrieve/manipulate data
- Experience in Azure DevOps (ADO) and test manager feature preferred
- Understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
- Able to develop, maintain and execute functional test automation scripts
