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Form of workSourceTek is a full-service IT staffing firm, specializing in providing top quality candidates to fill contract consulting, contract-to-hire and permanent positions. Privately-held and founded in 2013, SourceTek is headquartered in Tampa and partners with middle-market to fortune 500 clients nationwide.
Software Quality Engineer
Local or Remote - 80-100k
Pittsburgh, PA or Remote if previous experience.
We are looking for someone with a strong willingness to learn continuously and take ownership and accountability. A successful team member will appreciate mentoring others and have a willingness to be mentored. We require a sound decision maker that utilizes knowledge of business to drive decisions with a great sense of commitment in doing the job right the first time.
Potential remote employees must have experience working as a remote team member. Success delivering high-quality software and collaborative teamwork while working from a home-office must be demonstrated.
A Software Quality Engineer at my client is responsible for participating on agile teams as a test engineer. Your focus is to assure the entire team adopts a quality mindset and implements best practices to improve team performance to deliver high quality products as a result. This person will be involved with the entire product lifecycle a" requirements, design, review and coding, and testing. You'll be working closely with project managers, software engineers, product owners, architects and client services to collaborate and solve business problems in an agile development environment.
What you will do?
- Help shape our products by providing input on user stories and designs and by giving feedback on usability
- Implement automated and manual test cases with a focus on validating complex calculations, functional scenarios, performance, scalability, and usability.
- Work on a cross-functional Scrum team participating in planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and demos.
- Develop and execute test plans and work with other team members to implement the plan.
- Possess the ability to define and apply test methodologies/metrics to ensure that the quality guidelines for the product have been met.
- Seek constant improvement of yourself, our products, our software development process, and your team's performance.
What technical skills do you need?
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or related discipline
- a minimum of 2 or more years of professional experience in software development and/or automated testing
- Experience with Java, C++, or C# is preferred. Experience with XML, JavaScript is a plus
- Relational database experience is preferred
- Proven automation skills using a test automation tool (Selenium or Test Complete would be a plus).
- Experience with Visual Studio's Web Performance and Load Test or a related performance testing tool is a plus.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, organizational and teamwork skills with strong desire and ability to deliver results.
- Application performance testing is a plus
Potential remote employees must have experience working as a remote team member. Success delivering high-quality software and collaborative teamwork while working from a home-office must be demonstrated.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
