Principal Quality Analyst Engineer

Title: Principal Quality Analyst Engineer

Duration: Long term contract (1+ years)

Location: Remote- Must work in PST Time Zone
Must Haves:

7 -10 years of QA/Engineer hands-on experience

Managed and delivered multiple projects to completion from QA end

Has automation hands on understanding is helpful

Functional Test project execution with hands on involvement in Test Design, development, Execution, and coordination

Technical guidance & close coordination across various teams QA, Dev, Devops, vendors Etc.

Solid working ethics with good communication skills to ensure tech ideas are comprehended/understood across the board with no gaps

Candidate should be on working well & approachable w/wide range of team members.

Client's Quality Engineering Unit provides an opportunity to solve business critical and challenging problems using digital transformation, automation and technological innovations in building great products and applications with high quality, scalability and reliability. The State's digital transformation and innovation requires efficient Quality Engineering test methodologies and continuous test automation solutions for various applications-under-test (AUT) in support of agile and waterfall release delivery. Collaborate with test automation team in automating regression test suites, acceptance test suites, critical functional test suites for improving quality and efficiency. The State's Quality Engineering best practices are evolving to the next level by exploring script less automations, AI-Based QA Bot rollouts, new tools evaluations in delivering various SDLC / DevSecOps initiatives with high standards and operational excellence.

Required Time Allocation: · 70% - Functional test project execution – Participate in Agile/Waterfall SDLC, Co-ordinate with Module Leads in Design, Development, Execution of Test Scenarios and Test cases. · 10% - Support in building Test Strategy, Test Plan, QE Handbook, Release Notes and maintain Jira Dashboard. · 10% - Peer review test design, test execution, RCA and overall standards of QE deliverables. · 10% - Close coordination with multiple IT & business stakeholder, Functional guidance for automation team, connecting dots and ROI assessments.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Master's or Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years

· Hands-on web/cloud/mobile based applications testing skills, expertise in conducting E2E testing for large scale and complex applications with micro services / APIs.

· Prior work experience in Insurance Industry and having good knowledge on workers compensation insurance is a plus.

· Well versed with SDLC Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Requirements analysis, Test Strategy, Test design, Test optimization, QE Deliverables Roadmap, test plan and test results.

· Expertise in JIRA, Confluence and other test/defect management tools.

· Good knowledge of Java, Linux, Windows and debugging / technical troubleshooting skills.

· Excellent communication, presentation, documentation and interpersonal skills.

· Demonstrated skills in decision making and problem solving.

· Demonstrated ability in coaching/developing and mentoring QE team members.

· Track record of good time management, prioritizing projects and estimating work.

· Experience with Mobile Testing via Manual or Automation (Appium & Android SDK) including any of integration solutions such as Browser stack is a plus.

· Proficient with SQL for adding, modifying and extracting data from a RDBMS database including No-SQL or JSON formatted DBs.

· Good to have TestNg/Junit, Maven/Ant, also Jenkins inclusive of Shell Scripting understanding for CI/CD/CT integrations with DevOps / DevSecOps.

· Understanding Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid, ATDD frameworks inclusive of BDD & TDD techniques and POM based approach.

· Working knowledge with version control tools (TFS, GIT or SVN) is a plus.

Working knowledge of AI, Machine Learning techniques and framework such as (CNTK, etc.)