QA Engineer at Cavista

Job Description

Job Description for QA Engineer

• Collaborate with Product Owners to review and analyze business and functional requirements and design documents for sound testing strategies.
• Responsible for testing of a product, including writing the test plans and test cases, writing automation scripts, and testing the complete application from the UI through to the backend.
• Perform detailed cross-browser/cross-device testing, browser-based testing, mobile testing.
• Maintain requirements traceability with test case coverage.
• Provide expertise in understanding what to test, as well as how it should be tested.
• Implement test methodology best practices as defined by departmental standards.
• Advocate for testing standards
• Must maintain strong relationships with internal customers.
• Facilitate testing meetings, summarize results, issue/defect reporting, maintain metrics and provide go/no go recommendation.
• Review software and production issues as they occur for a holistic analysis of the impacts and possible causes.
• Create, execute, and document test plans and test cases (UAT, Integration, End-to-End, Regression, Beta), ensuring functional coverage and application performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a professional Quality Assurance Analyst testing (8+ years if no University degree) applications with high volume and high-reliability requirements
• Ability to work effectively with little supervision and strong attention to detail in a team environment.
• Aptitude for learning new technologies; supported by solid problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work well with a variety of people with varying technical skill sets.
• Ability to leverage experience to deliver reliable and repeatable tests.
• Broad understanding of quality engineering principles and test methodologies
• Ability to contribute to a vision of future state of testing by troubleshooting hardware and software issues.
• Basic SQL, Unix/Linux skills
• Experience in manual testing, automation testing experience is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and listening)
• 5-year experience in functional, integration or system testing web-based applications desired
• Experience executing test plans and scripts and verifying expected results.
• Strong understanding of common software development life cycles (waterfall, iterative, agile) and contemporary software quality assurance processes and automated tools