Quality Assurance Specialist

Core Responsibilities:
• Contribute to the team’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, designing, and executing tests in support of the agile development process.
• Design and development automated testing code and scripts with inputs and expected results as part of a test framework. This includes integration, UI, and acceptance level tests.
• Drive testing mindset on agile team and support developers in their creation of efficient and comprehensive automated unit and integration tests. Partner with developers to improve and automate test processes.?
• Research and maintain testing frameworks and tools.
• Design test scenarios, acceptance criteria (using gherkin) and test data.
• Conduct exploratory testing and other manual testing as needed leveraging critical thinking and product knowledge to find issues rapidly.
• Configure and maintain tooling for testing, coverage, and reporting.
• Report on and maintain test results.
• Identify and track defects; work with developers and business analysts to identify and isolate issues.
• Provide end user support for production technology solutions. May include creation and execution of SQL database queries.
• Advocate for maintaining a high-quality bar, making sure quality, and testing is an integral part of development.
• Communicate clearly with product, design, and technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the team’s effectiveness and efficiency by providing QA leadership, educating, supporting, and setting an example of software development best practices as related to testing.
• Stays focused and actively engaged in all the agile ceremonial meetings
Qualifications:
Education:? Bachelor's degree, or similar experience, preferably in an IT-related discipline.?

Knowledge and Experience:
• 12+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Specialist/QA Analyst role in a high performance and dynamic team environment.
• Agile mindset and fast to adapt to change.
• Excellent communication, analytical and time management skills. Must demonstrate ability and desire to continually learn.
• Hands on experience designing and implementing test automation code using JAVA or C# and other programming languages, automation scripts (Required)
• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium/Appium, Ready API, and other resources(Preferred)
• Experience with test case management tools, test case generation techniques, and problem tracking/reporting systems.
• Extensive experience with creation/refinement of acceptance criteria using Gherkin,
• Proven continual self-learning in the ever-changing landscape of test and test automation techniques, frameworks, and tools/technologies
• Proven ability to perform functional, integration, load/stress and regression testing and to accurately evaluate and document the results.
• Experience with relational database management systems/SQL (Preferably ORACLE).
• In depth understanding of current business processes in one or more functional business areas.
• Proven ability to analyze business requirements, and understand business activity and information models, to develop appropriate tests.
• Experience working with developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, performance, and testability.