Quality Engineer

Position Title: Quality Engineer, Data Level 3

Location: Remote (Client based in Cincinnati, Ohio)

Type: Contract

The highly experienced quality professional who works under supervision, learns quickly, brings ideas and passion to their daily responsibilities, and executes work to completion with excellence on time.

Skill/Experience Requirements:

• 8 years of QA experience
• Experience working with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab, etc.)
• Experience with QA processes and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Proficient in defect tracking and analyzing root cause utilizing tools (Jira, Rally, etc.)
• Strong understanding of automation and performance concepts and approaches.
• Experience working with or on remote teams
• Understand and utilize risk-based testing techniques
• Experience in test environment and test data management
• Strong communication, leadership, and collaboration skills, to challenge the norm

Specialization/Role Requirements for Automation

• 5 years of experience writing Selenium tests in Java or JavaScript (Web Driver, Web Driver IO, Marathon, Appium, etc.)
• 5 years of experience with test runners (Junit, TestNG, Mocha, Jasmine)
• 5 years of experience with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab)
• 2 years of experience with Selenium Grid
• 3 years of working in an Agile/Scrum methodology
• 2 years of using Jira for defect tracking

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively work in a fast-paced environment utilizing the Agile methodology
• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices
• Execute test scripts to validate the correct functionality of the application
• Use SQL for back-end database validation
• Perform various types of testing, including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing as needed
• Participate in requirement & design review sessions; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality test automation standpoint
• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis
• Document defects and evaluate the priority of defects based on overall application functionality
• Coordinate test script reviews with stakeholders as appropriate. • Adhere to requirement review, defect writing & test script writing guidelines
• Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget, and quality constraints.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions
• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with the project team.
• Multi-task to meet assignment deadlines
• Accurately estimate work assignments
• Show assertiveness
• Identify obstacles and roadblocks, and offer suggestions to work around obstacles
• Help drive and improve the QA process within the team you are assigned to

About Golden Technology

Golden Technology was founded in 1997 to develop people and drive innovation. In other words, we aim to pair world-class technologists like you with amazing companies that are doing impactful work.

After an initially slow start, and way too many late nights playing Final Fantasy 7, Golden Technology built a unique recruiting engine that would quickly prove itself to deliver top-tiered talent to fortune 500 clients across the US, time and time again.

Golden Technology has built a culture around family and helping the people we touch succeed in both their work and personal lives. Oh, everyone says that? Try us, you’ll see it.

We’re helping people find their calling and their dream jobs; and through our Golden Community initiatives we are actively working to improve the communities in which we work, live, and play