QA Senior Engineer

 

About The Role

As a QA Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for testing proprietary software solutions as well as building and supporting test automation. You will be integrated with a software development team to deliver strategic and tactical enhancements for RA Capital’s proprietary software suite. You'll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain test cases and test plans
• Design, implement and maintain Automated Test Suites
• Perform functional, exploratory, user acceptance testing and automated testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release process
• Provide thought and practice leadership in testing excellence
• Strive to develop and conduct software testing with high standards, thinking about engineering excellence.
• Learn and contribute to development across the entire stack (backend, DB, front end, UI)
• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree​ in computer science or a related field
• 5-8 years of software testing and test development experience
• Strong communication skills
• Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)
• Ability to quickly understand complex business problems
• Proven experience building high quality and comprehensive test plans and test cases custom software
• Proven experience testing web applications, web APIs and data driven applications
• Proven experience designing and implementing automated test suites
• Experience with various testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit)
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript).
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in an agile delivery environment
• Strong SQL coding and debugging skills
• Experience with service oriented architectures a plus
• Experience with cloud platform services a plus
• Experience in the financial services and/or Biotech/Pharma industries.
• ​Ability work a hybrid work schedule at our Boston headquarters