Senior QA Engineer

Title for this position: Senior QA Engineer
Onsite: yes, remote to start
Duration: 6+ months, contract to hire
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This position is located in Waltham, MA

Job Summary
This role combines a focus in software quality and testing as well as review and analysis
of business requirements by ensuring adherence to quality standards and practices
defined by our company, the Health Care Industry and Compliance. You will be heavily
involved in developing and executing a multifaceted testing approach including
functional/system testing, integration testing, service level testing via Ready API, end to
end testing, exploratory testing and regression. We emphasize collaboration across
multiple feature and support teams to deliver quality integrated products.

Responsibilities

• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirements.
• Perform functional, application and regression, to ensure that developed products meet design specifications and are within total quality management limits and standards.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives and End to End testing coordination.
• Analyze requirements, perform ambiguity analysis to ensure that requirements meet design specifications and standards.
• Identify and investigate issues found during testing, assist Software Engineers in troubleshooting and update test cases based on discovered defects.
• Contribute to standards and procedures for measuring product quality and release readiness.
• Execute performance tests within Scrum Teams to ensure early detection of issues. Assist in troubleshooting and investigation of issues/concerns.
• Enhance automation framework, create, maintain, and execute automated test scripts. Optimize performance of test execution through innovation.
• Support UAT initiatives by providing data set up, access, and troubleshooting issues.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required, assigned, or requested.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline required; in lieu of a degree, 6 – 7 years of relevant experience may be considered
• 4+ years of progressive QA/testing experience in Information Technology or software development focus on problems / projects of diverse complexity and scope
• Possess specialist understanding of QA/testing principals and policies with experience as a project leader for quality
• Ability to apply developed subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex testing challenges
• Experience in automation, creating scripts, execution and troubleshooting using Selenium, QTP or other front-end automation tools
• Experience in performance test script creation, execution and troubleshooting using tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, LoadUI, etc.
• Problems faced are difficult and complex and require significant analysis
• Ability to influence others within and outside of job function, and may communicate with external stakeholders
• Provides guidance and assistance to lower level and/or support professionals
• Ability to travel up to 10%, as needed

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result.