Sr SQA Engineer

job summary:The Software Quality Assurance (SQA) engineer works as a member of the SQA team, supporting products during the entire software development life-cycle, i.e. at all stages of the project (analysis, development, testing and deployment). The SQA engineer's main responsibility will be to create, execute and maintain functional, integration and regression tests, as well as supporting requirements analysis and review. Additionally, the SQA engineer will have the opportunity to act as a Test Lead for small/medium size projects. location: SAN JOSE, Californiajob type: Contractsalary: $80 - 83 per hourwork hours: 8am to 4pmeducation: Bachelors responsibilities:Actively participate in release cycle planning, demo and retrospective, attend daily standups. Evaluate engineering functional specification and other project documentation, compose and execute test cases to fully verify the correctness of functionality, and work closely with SDETs to understand what can and should be automated. Develop scripts for functionally testing web applications. Create and execute detailed functional tests in BDD format (when appropriate) Participate in project and requirements discussion, and escalate potential issues Ensure test case coverage for functional and workflow scenarios. Identify potential issues in requirements and codebase, making adjustments to tests and validations when necessary. Collaborate with development and automation to determine potential coverage of automated test cases Ensure the effective fulfillment of objectives and deadlines assigned to the group. Work with bugs throughout their lifecycle. Participate in updating/maintaining automation scripts. Required technical skills (years of exp per skill): 8+ years in application/systems level testing, scripting and black-box testing experience Good knowledge or experience of languages with Ruby, Java and two or more of the following languages and tools: JavaScript, Selenium, Cucumber, Python. 2+ years of experience writing behavior-driven test cases, and preferably using Cucumber. 5+ years of experience with QA methodologies and SDLC Experience working on Agile teams, using Scrum methodologies strong knowledge of Object Oriented Development, Page Object and other design patterns strong proven Selenium WebDriver knowledge Have deep understanding in testing types and processes Basic experience in SQL and postgresql. Either one them Experience with test management (preferably, Test Management for JIRA) and bug tracking (preferably, Jira) tools, Confluence, Git, Bamboo Hands on experience in creating API test framework and in API level testing qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 8 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors