Senior Qa Engineer

Position Summary:
The Senior QA Engineer will primarily lead quality assurance efforts within the software development group and work hand-in-hand with development teams and stakeholders performing QA activities within agile development iterations.
The Senior QA Engineer will also work outside their assigned product development teams on quality initiatives as directed by the QA Manager.
The Senior QA Engineers responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Providing guidance and support to associate and intermediate level QA Engineers.
• Leading product team initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Evangelizing quality processes and best practices to improve and measure the quality of products delivered to customers
• Serving in leadership roles within the QA Team and working directly with QA Manager on strategic initiatives
• Assisting QA Manager with implementing quality processes across multiple product teams
• Serving as an Enterprise QA Lead as needed to facilitate integration and end-to-end type testing
• Collaborating with the development team and stakeholders to ensure testable user stories are created and estimated
• Identifying test conditions of satisfaction for user stories and testing tasks
• Executing a QA process that fits within our overall agile life-cycle
• Developing, executing and maintaining manual and automated tests to ensure code quality in a continuous integration environment
• Capturing and reporting quality metrics to varied audiences
• Representing quality principles and processes within assigned product teams
• Recommending continuous process improvement ideas to QA Manager and within assigned product team

Job Accountability

Responsibilities

Key Measures

Essential Functions

• Recommend strategic ideas and suggestions to the QA Manager for consideration and inclusion

• Work closely with various IT teams on initiatives outside normal product iterations as directed

• Participate in all Agile planning activities, such as user story creation, point estimation, related defects while paying particular attention to testability

• Measurable objective metrics

• Collaborate and provide feedback on user story details related to clarifying requirements, testability, acceptance criteria

• Collaborate with business/customer representative/SME in determining acceptance criteria for user stories

• Recommend test approach, test environment requirements, and data strategies

• Provide regular status updates to project team on QA progress

• Disseminate QA summary reports as needed (e.g. Pre-imp)

• Work closely with product team to identify and resolve issues and suggest streamlining defect process within the product development lifecycle.

• Works with automation engineer(s) and QA Manager to define a working automation model for individual product(s) as well as integrated product(s) and enterprise services

• Audits QA artifact procedures as directed

• Makes recommendations to QA Engineers on artifact procedure issues uncovered

• Works with QA Manager on enhancing test artifact procedures

• Analyze, design, and maintain test artifacts such as test objectives for manual and automated tests

• Create and/or set up test environments and test data

• Work with development team as needed on unit test coverage

• Audits QA validation and verification procedures as directed

• Makes recommendations to QA Engineers on validation and verification issues uncovered

• Ensure application meets documented requirements using defined quality processes and best practices

• Perform applicable testing and verification using appropriate QA practices

• Log defects following appropriate QA practices

• Support User Acceptance Testing

• Perform data validation using SQL queries

• Develop and execute automated tests for regression

Non-Essential Functions

• Secondary tasks and duties (desirable, but not primary focus of position)

- % of time for secondary non-essential tasks

• Measurable objective metrics

Values

• Collaboration: We collaborate with our teams and our customers to get the job done, respecting individual ideas and contributions and moving forward in pursuit of shared goals.

• Results: We deliver on our promises to create value for the freight rail industry through talented people, good ideas, business leadership, and great technology.

• Service: We serve the changing needs of our customers and our industry to enhance the value they bring to our community, the environment and our economy.

• Measurable objective metrics

Success Factors:

• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Minimum Requirements

• Ability to lead multiple testing projects simultaneously

• Ability to explain concepts with technical and non-technical staff

• Work efficiently within assigned project schedules

• Work effectively with all co-workers; team player

• Communicate effectively and in a professional manner

• Exhibit ability to learn complex business functions with limited guidance

Additional Requirements:

• Education

• Experience

• Certification/Training

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired

• 2+ years - Java

• 2+ years - Selenium WebDriver with Java

• 2+ years - SQL

• 7+ years in a QA role with manual test case definition and execution experience

• 1+ years - SOAP & REST Webservices Testing (SOAP UI or alternate tool)

• 3+ years’ experience with automated test tools

• 3+ years of Non-functional Test Experience

• 3+ years of experience using versioning software like git.

• Experience in using business driven development framework like cucumber will be a plus

• Remain abreast of current technologies and take initiative to acquire additional knowledge to prepare for additional responsibilities

• Demonstrated understanding of SDLC and QA processes and best practices in accordance with Agile/SCRUM practices

• Exhibit ability to learn complex business functions

Physical Requirements

• Sedentary work: assignment involves sitting at workstation (desk) most of the time (up to 8 hours) with only occasional walking and/or standing

• Keyboarding: Primarily using fingers for typing

• Talking: Expressing or communicating verbally through use of spoken words (accurately conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others)

• Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.

• Visual: Through close visual acuity, required to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing computer terminal; extensive reading (with or without correction)

• Environment: work is performed within an office setting and therefore no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions (i.e. extreme heat, cold, noise, etc.)