Quality Assurance Tester

DESCRIPTION:
As a test engineer in our organization, you will be a key member of our Platform team, responsible for building the next generation of hosted products and platform services for our public safety customers around the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Serve as a test designer and contributor in a project quality team.
- Review Project Requirement documents and Functional Specifications, define test strategy, and scope test effort as part of regular planning cycle.
- Write detailed test plans for assigned features to include manual and automated tests
- Define test strategy for reusable project based components.
- Help set the direction, process, and general test methodology for parallel development of the software and automated test suite.
- Assist other members of the team with technical problems in test environments and script development
- Develop and maintain manual and automated scripts and libraries
- Develop and maintain innovative, repeatable QA test plans based on functional requirements, use cases, user interface designs, system design documents and domain knowledge
- Give daily feedback in stand-ups to the project teams on test progress and concerns
- Oversee and participate in the day-to-day QA activities on multiple agile teams

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

- Bachelors Degree is required
- 3+ years of proven experience in Software Testing, with specific experience testing Web-based applications.
- Software Development experience is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to communicate effectively with team members
- Ability to manage test activities across multiple projects at one time, often with changing requirements as agile team needs may dictate
- In-depth experience with test planning, test case creation and test case execution
- Ability to write clear and concise defect reports
- Experience with requirements reviews with developers and other stakeholders such as product owners
- Experience with all phases of software testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, Performance, Scale, and Release Management)
- Ability to clearly present progress of QA deliverables including test execution reporting, test plans, and defect reporting
- Knowledge of Agile Scrum development practices and how they pertain to Quality Assurance needs
- Strong experience with at least one test automation solution, preferably Selenium using WebDriver, and JMeter
- Experience with source control and change management processes