Senior QA Engineer - Manual

Job Summary

A Senior QA Engineer is an associate at Creative Chaos who is mainly responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions. They will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics. Senior engineers have a responsibility to mentor their juniors and build team strength through training.

Job Duties:

• Plan, organize, and implement day-to-day activities of testing and work with developers, architects, and technical release managers within an agile/scrum environment
• Participate in scrum & product planning and be responsible for all phases and types of testing, including but not limited to strategies, requirements, planning, management, execution, and reporting
• Document and facilitate communication and troubleshooting of issues, bugs, and changes validate and close out all issues prior to client delivery
• Collaborate with other QA associates to accomplish all daily QA tasks on time with a high level of quality
• Develop a process to ensure the highest level of quality assurance possible
• Investigate procedures, workflows, and software to keep processes up to date
• Assist in the development of ongoing training programs for the QA Team
• Provide department-specific orientation and training for new hires.
• Maintain open communication with internal teams
• Assist with internal project kickoffs and requirements/specs gathering
• Understand complex business and functional requirements and provide direction in designing the technical test cases that thoroughly test the tech stack from an architectural standpoint and meet the project requirements.
• Work with project, and engineering teams in implementing & enforcing quality gates at each stage of the pipeline.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• 3-5 years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience in Manual Testing, Performance Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and Integration Testing.
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Hands-on experience with both white-box and black-box testing.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Proficiency in Postman, JMeter
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.