Quality Assurance Engineer

What is the role?

Responsibilities

You will be an integral member of our IT team, collaborating with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure that quality is built into the software products and services IntraFi provides. You will work as a key member of cross-functional Agile scrum teams (in house and offshore) to ensure quality is achieved at all stages of the development process, from defining requirements through code deployment. Using your creative and critical thinking skills, you will perform these core responsibilities:

• Developing and executing test plans to ensure that all software products and services meet or exceed customer expectations;
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating testing activities, including developing automated tests to support our software development processes, performing exploratory and manual testing, as needed, to ensure that all aspects of our software products and services are thoroughly tested, and quickly identifying and testing for functional ‘edge cases’ outside of expected functionality;
• Working with offshore teams to ensure testing is completed on time and to the highest quality standards;
• Conducting API testing to ensure that our APIs are functional, reliable, and secure;
• Developing and executing database queries to test and ensure data integrity and accuracy;
• Reviewing and analyzing user story requirements and acceptance criteria;
• Proactively bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team, generating, proposing, and implementing innovative solutions to solve them;
• Staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies in software quality assurance, and recommending process improvements where appropriate; and
• Providing on-call production support to ensure that our services are available and operating correctly.
  
  

What qualifications are necessary to succeed in the job?

• Strong, demonstrated knowledge of software quality assurance methodologies, tools, and processes, and proven work experience in software quality assurance with a minimum of 5 years working in an Agile software development environment
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, and the ability to write clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Geb, Groovy, Cucumber, JavaScript, , WebdriverIO ), and experience with API testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, REST-assured)
• Familiarity and proven aptitude with programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, Angular)
• Solid knowledge of SQL, and experience using relational databases such as Oracle and Postgres
• Experience using CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins); application monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk); and the Atlassian suite of tools, such as JIRA, Bitbucket, and Confluence
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, ability to multitask, and results/goal-oriented demeanor
• Willingness to provide on-call production support outside of regular business hours
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject preferred
• Experience with Amazon Web Services a plus
• Experience working with offshore teams a plus