QA Engineer

Location: Cary
Status: Contract
Compensation: Submit Competitive Rate
Education Level: Not Specified

Our client, an established successful software company with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina has an opening for a Quality Engineer.

The QA Engineer will provide quality assurance testing within the software development group and work hand-in-hand with development teams and stakeholders performing QA activities within agile development iterations:

The role:

- Collaborating with the development team and stakeholders to ensure testable user stories are created and estimated
- Executing a QA process that fits within our overall agile life cycle
- Developing, executing and maintaining manual and automated tests to ensure code quality in a continuous integration environment
- Planning and Interactions
- Participate in all Agile planning activities, such as user story creation, point estimation, related defects while paying particular attention to testability
- Collaborate with business/customer representative/SME in determining acceptance criteria for user stories
- Recommend test approach, test environment requirements, and data strategies
- Work independently and with automation engineer(s) to identify product feature automation candidates
- Develop and maintain test artifacts
- Analyze, design, and maintain test artifacts such as test objectives for manual and automated tests
- Create and/or set up test environments and test data
- Work with development team as needed on unit test coverage
- Validation and Verification
- Ensure application meets documented requirements using defined quality processes and best practices
- Perform applicable testing and verification using appropriate QA practices
- Log defects following appropriate QA practices
- Support user acceptance testing
- Perform data validation using SQL queries
- Develop and execute automated tests for regression

Required and Desired Skills List:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired
- 3+ years in a QA role with manual test case definition and execution experience
- 1+ years' experience with automated test tools
- Communicate effectively and in a professional manner
- Understanding of SDLC and QA processes and best practices in accordance with Agile/SCRUM practices
- Demonstrated understanding of SQL
- Mainframe and DB2 experience desired

Preferred
- Experience in analysis, basic statistical analysis
- Working knowledge of analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, Visio

The more experienced candidate will also have knowledge of Java and distributed web technologies and how they apply to systems development.

Work at a technology focused company and there is a high probability this position will convert to Full-time Employment. Our client offers arguably the most robust and comprehensive benefits in the Triangle!

Application Requirements

- Client will not accept subcontractors
- You must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a Full time basis.

Required Qualifications:

- Manual Testing
- AUTOMATED TESTING TOOLS

Benefits/Perks

- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses

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