Qa Engineer

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Keep the team and stakeholders informed of a holistic view of the products quality

Elicit examples that act as or clarify acceptance criteria

Encourage and lead collaboration and discussion around team testing improvements

Help developers plan and build automated tests at the proper levels of the system to provide the optimal return of feedback to cost of ownership of the test suite

Evaluate the product’s fitness for purpose through exploratory testing plans and experimentation to complement automated checks

Work with stakeholders to triage issue priority levels

Work with stakeholders to identify reasonable quality benchmarks based on product needs

Work with the team to improve processes that enable the team to meet defined quality goals

Measure how closely the product meets the quality goals set forth by the stakeholders, including risk as it applies to the quality of the product

Carry out root-cause analysis of defects when they occur

Partner with each team role to help ensure the team is working towards the goal of delivering a quality working product into production

Partner with developers to write clean and maintainable test code

Ask questions and challenge others to consider the consequences of design and architecture decisions

The candidate may be expected to travel for client or team meetings

The following knowledge skills and attributes are required:

Practical application of automated testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Detox, Webdriver, Espresso, Capybara, Nightmare, Jest, etc.

Comprehensive understanding of both processes and methods that are used by quality assurance experts in software development

Team-oriented and collaborative approach, possessing strong interpersonal communication skills with an ability to give constructive feedback to team members