Senior Quality Engineer

Position - Senior Quality Engineer

6 month contract, but keeps extending, client have people billing there for 3-6 years

Visa status- USC and GC

Client mandatory 2 weeks off in the summer months and 2 weeks off the last two weeks of December for all contractors.

Location: We are looking for candidates to reside in the Richmond, VA or DFW locations only

Need to go onsite when needed in Plano, TX. could be 1x a week, 2x a week, 1x every other week.

Must be able to go onsite as needed.

Automation:  The automation framework is already created and have 2 quality engineers that help support the framework and the QE’s in this space with creating and maintaining the framework.   The framework is written in Typescript, and uses Webdriver IO. 

Notes from the Hiring Manager:

New contractor position open in the B2B supply area.

Details:

Team: This team handles all of the vehicle data generation for our auctions. The role will be for manual testing, with a majority of that using API’s and a smaller porting of a modern web application.

In this role, being a team player, effective communication, and the ability to collaborate and work with others is going to be a priority

JD:

Senior Quality Engineer 

The Senior Quality Engineer is an essential role in the software development life cycle and ensures only properly tested software is released to production. A flawless customer experience is our top priority and this role plays a major part in that company goal. By designing and executing properly prepared test cases (both manual and automated) and working closely together with the entire agile team, this goal is achievable. This position focuses on both the agile team as well as the QE organization. 

What you will do – Essential Responsibilities 

• Participates in all Agile ceremonies for Team 
• Plans and executes tests to cover functional, integration, compatibility and regression needs and reports back findings to the Team 
• Helps lead test automation effort, advocating for automation and contributes to framework design and suggests process improvements 
• Reviews automated test runs, reports out on automated test execution and coverage statuses, and maintains broken automated tests 
• Understands each area of the business, grasp their processes and learn how they work together 
• Understands complex problems, develops solutions and can communicate to both people inside and outside of their team 
• Uses and modifies existing libraries / tools for automation testing 
• Deciphers between basic business requirements and technical requirements 
• Creates test strategies and plans for team and assists other teams when needed 
• Identifies new tools or processes for adoption 
• Writes general documentation regarding QE processes and tools 
• Develops key quality metrics and reports to stakeholders in the organization 
• Participates in the interview of new candidates 

Qualifications and Requirements 

• 5 years of experience in software quality assurance 
• Strong understanding of IT systems including system design, Object Oriented Design, databases and programming concepts specifically HTML, browsers, JavaScript, Web Services and AJAX 
• Strong background in test automation with front end and backend automation tools 
• Strong oral/written communication, presentation, and organizational skills 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for driving strategic initiatives through large and diverse organizations 
• Ability to work within multiple work streams at one time 
• Experience: NodeJS / Typescript, Selenium / WebDriverIO, API automation, Playwright

Education: 4-year Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT related course of study preferred