Software QA Engineer (Remote)

head farmer - Excellent in our field. Headfarmer is a boutique recruiting firm specializing in the permanent and contract placement of the upper echelon of talent in the greater Phoenix area. We offer a unique process of " headfarming " which provides a level of professional support to both candidates and clients that exceeds recruiting industry standards. Job Purpose The Software Quality Engineer participates in the development of business solutions by analyzing requirements, creating test plans, test cases, automated test cases, and testing all aspects of the completed solution. Leads, participates, or assists with all phases of testing. Creates and communicates testing results to assist with assessment of production readiness. Collaborates with developers and product owners to ensure quality is being built in as early as possible. Essential Job Results Reviews requirements and designs for testability and works with other teams until all questions are resolved. Creates and documents test cases including functional, load, and regression tests via automated methods. Executes test activities utilizing automated and manual test scripts. Documents and communicates test results for system owners and project teams. Performs all test planning to achieve the required coverage in an efficient manner. Creates automated test scripts for Web applications, services, and mobile devices. Sets up Jenkins jobs and maintains the sauce lab cloud environment. Contribute to automated testing standards creation and enforcement, and contributes code to shared libraries Education and Skills

• Minimum 4 year of Automated Testing or Java development experience required .
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Systems Engineering, or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Full understanding of the complete Business process for all company applications and how they interact with each other.
• Hospitality or travel related experience preferred.
• Basic knowledge of testing and automation tools required.
• Prior experience working in an Agile SCRUM/ Kanban environment is preferred.
• Basic knowledge SQL Queries is required.
• Knowledge of basic UNIX Commands is required.
• Basic understanding of networks and firewalls
• Basic understanding of cloud computing and environments
• Intermediate proficiency with unit testing frameworks like JUnit and TestNG
• Basic knowledge of Selenium Web Driver
• Basic knowledge in using Sauce Labs
• Basic Jenkins knowledge
• Prior experience working with Rally tool preferred.
• Familiar with relevant policies, procedures and technical parameters specific to the job. Has basic functional and technical know-how to succeed in job. Learns new functional and technical skills readily.

• Create and execute test cases based on User Stories.
• Help Business prioritize defects and plan sprints and releases.
• Utilize Business knowledge to help accurately scope out and estimate test planning as well as identify impediments early in project lifecycles.
• Review and provide feedback on User Stories to help ensure they are clear and concise and test cases can easily be built for them.
• Consistently deliver High Quality testing services by creating the correct test cases to ensure maximum code coverage.
• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Ability to respectfully question ideas and share a point of view with others in support of the business requirements and testing.
• Maintain and enforce testing standards surrounding test case creation, execution and management.
• Exhibit confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry testing practices when solving business problems.
• Quality testing skills including the ability take on more complex and critical projects and provide high level feedback in a timely manner with little or no supervision.
• Manage Load and Performance testing process and execution.
• Provide metrics to measure software quality.