QA Engineer/Tester

QA Engineer / Tester

Minneapolis, MN!

12 months+

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This position reports to the Director of QA Engineering. As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for testing proprietary software solution, design, build and support of Test Automation software. You will be integrated with a project Team to deliver strategic and tactical enhancements to Parametric's proprietary software suite. You'll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary, including Infrastructure, DevOps, InfoSec and Release Management.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, implement and maintain Test Cases and Test Plans for Parametric's proprietary software

Design, implement and maintain Automated Test Suites for Parametric's proprietary software

Perform functional, exploratory, user acceptance testing and automated testing as part of Software Development Lifecycle and Release Process

Strive to develop and conduct software testing with high standards, thinking about engineering excellence.

Assist and mentor other QA engineers with User Acceptance Testing, which includes answering client questions, tracking all reported issues and identifying whether they are bugs or enhancements

Learn and contribute to development across the entire stack (backend, DB, front end, UI)

Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners

Contribute to high-velocity delivery with safety; enable agility and iterative changes to the UI and product design

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree or equivalent field and / or comparable work experience

5+ years of software testing and test development experience

Strong communication skills

Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)

Ability to quickly understand complex business problems

Experience in one or more Test Automation Frameworks – Appium, Selenium

Proven experience building high quality and comprehensive test plans and test cases custom software

Proven experience testing web applications, web apis and data driven applications

Proven experience designing and implementing automated test suites

Proven experience with CI / CI pipelines

Experience in an Agile delivery environment

Experience with cloud platform services

Strong SQL coding and debugging skills

Experience with service oriented architectures a plus