Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Responsibilities
• Provide high-level test effort estimate
• Create detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Set up a test harness to test functionality
• Automation feasibility study, development & maintenance of API, functional, integration and load/performance scripts across platforms
• Build, deploy application & conduct manual and automated testing as per defined process
• Report and follow up of defects found until closure
• Analyze logs in order to understand the root causes of issues
• Participate in agile ceremonies - standups, planning sessions and retrospectives
• Perform automated nightly application regression & performance test
• Functional/Integration/Production testing by leveraging CI/CD Pipeline
• Work both independently and in close collaboration with others in the team and across the business to achieve quality & performance engineering goals
• Bring the quality consciousness, test leadership and customer advocacy
• Create and maintain HOWTOs and other materials for quality & performance engineering team
• Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
• Actively coach/mentor quality engineers
• Publish KPIs & metrics, ensure process compliance
• Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, if needed
Minimum Requirements
• B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
• 5+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE testing
• 3+ yrs. of experience in testing news website, subscription products, SEO, ads, metrics, video players (live/on-demand) & streaming media content on desktop & mobile platforms
• 3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE automation
• Must be proficient in Java
• Must have experience implementing automation frameworks – (Selenium WebDriver/Appium/TestNG/Junit)
• Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics
• Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
• Any certification related to QE/Process/Automation/Performance Test
Desired traits
Organized, analytical & methodical, process-driven, customer-centric, creative, problem-solver, purposeful, articulate, composed, empathetic, trusted, collaborative & passionate.
