Quality Assurance Engineer Ii

Position Title:  Quality Engineer II (P2)

Company Summary:

Crown Castle works around the country to build and maintain the infrastructure behind the world’s most revolutionary technologies. As the largest shared infrastructure provider in the United States, Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers, 80,000 small cells and over 80,000 route miles of fiber across every major US market. This nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure connects cities and communities to essential data, technology, and wireless service – bringing information, ideas and innovations to the people and businesses that need them. Crown Castle is a NYSE S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the United States with an enterprise value of approximately $100 billion. Crown Castle is also a cutting-edge technology company that develops software and foundational solutions that support our industry leading communication infrastructure across the US market. The Data and Digital Team is focused on developing innovative solutions, utilizing modern technologies, to deliver critical data, geo-spatial, and logistic capabilities to our customers.

Position:Quality Assurance Engineer II (P2) 

Role:

Crown is building a Engineering capability to deliver and ensure quality across software products supported by Data & Digital.

We're hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer II who has knowledge and experience in software testing with hands-on manual test execution for GUI, API, DB and/or mobile applications along with either the experience or aptitude to develop test automation.  In the Data and Digital group, you will grow your skills in an environment that emphasizes creativity, collaboration and empowerment. You will work on an Agile Team with talented, diverse and dynamic professionals to plan, design, commit and deliver impactful business capabilities.  

Responsibilities:

• Develop software verification plans and Quality Assurance procedures
• Work closely with Product, Dev and fellow QAs to confirm acceptance criteria/requirements and technical designs are fully defined to meet business needs, technical considerations and establish clear pass/fail criteria.
• Execute test strategies/test plans & test cases (both manual and automated), complete requirement/defect to test case traceability matrices (including ensuring 100% coverage of all testable requirements), represent the quality engineering practice in agile ceremonies and serve as an ambassador for quality within assigned Agile Team as well as the greater organization.
• Assist in the design and implementation or rollout of automated test frameworks and solutions.
• Maintain test environment, code deployment and data integrity to ensure accurate foundations for testing activities.

Expectations:

• Self-motivated individuals with a passion for learning, who can adapt quickly, communicate well, and enjoy working in a diverse team
• Commits to action that drives success in operational projects, and other business metrics
• Has practical working experience, with the ability to work on small development efforts with some oversight
• Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors
• A certain degree of creativity and decision latitude is expected

Education/Certifications:

• BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline

Experience/Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years hands on experience in developing both manual and automated tests
• Experience writing test scenarios & test cases, participating in estimation of test efforts, exposure to developing automated test scripts, authoring test documentation and defining test data needs.
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through execution
• Experience in communicating with business users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• Knowledge of system testing best practices and methodologies
• Understanding of QA methodologies
• Hands on experience with functional, integration, system & E2E testing, API testing, database validation and / or mobile applications testing
• Quality mentality and thinking outside the box, ability to envision multi-product relationships
• Experience using a backlog management tool, such as Azure Dev Ops or JIRA

Working Conditions:  This is a remote role with the expectation of on-site/in-person collaboration with teammates and stakeholders for moments that matter and may require up to 20% travel.

For New York, Colorado, California and Washington residents the hiring range offered for this position is $70,500 - $101,300 annually. In addition to salary, employees are eligible for an annual bonus of up to 20% of annual salary and restricted stock. Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive 18 days of paid time off each year and 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

We offer a total benefits package and professional growth development for teammates in any stage of their career. Along with caring for our teammates, we’re an active member in the communities where we live, work and do business. We have a responsibility to give back, which we do through our Connected by Good program. Giving back allows us to improve public spaces where people connect, promote public safety and advance access to education and technology.qua