QA Engineer

Title: - QA Engineer

Location: 250 E 500 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (Remote)

Duration: 6 Months from projected start date (with possible extension)

Visa: - USC/GC

Interview: Panel Interview online through Google Meets

Remote position available. Local preferred but remote workers must always work within the United States and have the legal right to work in the US.

Job Description

The Client prefers that the contractor pick up equipment locally.

SCOPE OF WORK

SOFTWARE TESTING ENGINEER

FOR

USBE UTAH SCHOOLS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (USIMS)

Summary

The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) is seeking strong Software Testing Engineers to work on a new event driven microservices designed system which will impact every student and teacher in Utah. We are looking for highly motivated individuals experienced in secure coding practices, Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, event-driven microservices design, and with the ability to incorporate/integrate data visualization capabilities into web applications.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate for this position has experience in Azure, Playwright, Selenium and SpecFlow, with advanced knowledge of event-driven microservices testing and containerization. They are an Automation Engineer with a passion for testing automation, failing fast, and making peoples’ lives easier. They enjoy both philosophical discussions and deploying frameworks and are keen to experiment.

Principal Duties

As a Software Testing Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Develops and maintains automated integration test libraries to support the continuous integration pipeline – this involves testing multiple event-driven microservices in containers with your knowledge of Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Selenium C#, SpecFlow, and Azure.
• Collaborates with development and business to implement data-driven test strategies based on engineering and product goals.
• Develops and maintains metrics and measures of testing performance, coverage, and efficacy.
• Creates or consults on verification and validation of test plans, test reports, and matrices to incorporate the automated tests and then reviews with relevant stakeholders.
• Develops and continuously improves a robust test automation framework which covers the needs of the domain.
• Designs and tests quality measures and standards for new applications through development/product lifecycles which are engineered to enhance user experience.
• Identifies and develops creative solutions to problems within the team domain.
• Understands data collections and data flow and when and where to test within the pipeline.
• Works within a cross-functional team to deliver on a common goal.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Requirements

• Degree – Candidate must possess a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, but may substitute equivalent experience.
• Functional Experience – Candidates must have 5+ years of QA automation experience.
• Functional Experience – Candidates must have 3+ years of development experience with C#, and .net technologies.
• Functional Experience – Candidates must have 3+ years’ experience with Selenium with .Net and C# or Playwright with C#, or RestSharp and Playwright.
• Functional Experience – Candidates must have experience developing and maintaining testing metrics.
• Functional Experience – Candidates must have experience with multiple software testing methodologies.
• Interpersonal Relationships – Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work well with others of all personality types while demonstrating problem-solving and the ability to prioritize tasks.
• Communication – Candidates must demonstrate the ability to communicate in verbal and written form with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Initiative – Candidates must demonstrate success as a self-starting, hardworking and inquisitive worker.
• Teamwork – Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
• Agile/Scrum – Candidates must demonstrate experience in an agile product environment to include deep understanding and experience with agile methodologies.
  
  

Bonus Skills

• Certifications – Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), ISTQB, CAST, etc.
• Development Experience – .NET, C#, CSS, Angular, Azure, etc.
• Experience with container orchestration and building apps in containers.
• Domain Driven Design – Understanding and experience with Domain Driven Design
• Financial or Education Domain experience
  
  

Penetration Testing, Security testing, experience with OWASP, etc