​Sr. Software Test Engineer - Tempe, Utah, Santa Clara, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte

Make Next Happen Now.  For more than 30 years, Our client has helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. OUR CLIENT provides targeted financial services and expertise through its offices in innovation centers across the world. With commercial, international and private banking services, OUR CLIENT helps address the unique needs of innovators.  We are looking for a hands-on Senior Test Engineer who will work with Product Managers, Developers, BAs and cross-functional global teams in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment to understand features and technical implementation. You play a vital role in implementation and establishment of quality process in our testing organization. You lead and manage growth in the testing organization across all platforms and branches as an active partner in design, planning and execution working on multiple projects and cross-platform efforts. You identify use cases, create test cases, execute test cases and generate reports in order to report to stakeholders on the quality and reliability of multiple applications across-platform and different verticals at OUR CLIENT.

The Senior Testing Engineer (STE) supports and ensures successful delivery of organizational transformation and goals across all business verticals at OUR CLIENT, delivering high quality products for our clients. This role is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day task management across multiple project test teams and long-term planning for specific business vertical.  The Sr TE coordinates with teams for global projects working with teams located around the world.  This role works independently under minimal guidance providing coaching and mentoring for junior Test Engineers.

As a Sr Test Engineer you must be able to

·       Understand software internals, debug problems, and automate repetitive tasks with scripting tools and user-level automation tools

·       Be responsible for the overall quality of IT projects and changes through execution of all aspects of the Software Development and Testing Life Cycle

·       Have excellent written and verbal communication skills are required as the person will work very closely with diverse teams

·       Adhere to OUR CLIENT Enterprise Software Delivery Methodology

·       Define automation plans and timelines

·       Conduct feasibility study, assist with automation utilizing current frameworks and tools

·       Streamline the testing process by introducing automation, leveraging tools and setting goals to reduce time and effort

·       Lead automation efforts and explore new test automation tools and methods

·       Lead, develop, monitor and execute test activities for small to medium size projects

·       Work closely with development and business partners to ensure timely collaboration and resolution

·       Review and understand project or application requirements, conduct ambiguity review - Prepare robust test strategy, test plan, test cases, log defects and produce status reports

·       Manage and create test data

·       Work closely with offshore vendor teams to ensure continued support and test execution in various time zones

·       Utilize JIRA as the defect tracking system and report issues promptly and accurately - Conduct defect/issue triage sessions, follow defects through closure

·       Ensure reproducibility, auditability and traceability of deliverables

·       Assist in building and configuring test environments

·       Monitor environmental impacts, communicate potential risks, provide mitigation plans

·       Map test cases to the requirements, provide requirement traceability metrics (RTM)

·       Develop expert knowledge of the software in test and any other impacted applications or flows related to the change to ensure accurate test design and execution

·       Provide testing support and conduct working troubleshooting sessions with development partners for timely resolution

·       You are also responsible for producing written reports with recommendations and insights for key stakeholders that will help shape effective strategies to assess and mitigate risks in Quality Assurance

·       Taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment

Required Experience: 8+ years of related experience in the following:

·       Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent professional experience

·       Experience with building test automation framework, test automation scripting, scheduling and reporting

·       Analyzing Test Scenarios and design/ convert to automation scripts

·       Maintenance of existing automation scripts

·       Experience in Automation Tools: Selenium, WebDriver, Cucumber

·       Experience with QA strategies such as mocking, pairwise testing, UI and API level testing

·       Demonstrated experience in test planning, design, test strategy and test execution of highly complex systems

·       Ability to design and plan testing conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control

·       Experience with JIRA

·       Knowledge of a programming or scripting language (Python, Ruby, or JavaScript).

·       Knowledge of Testing methodology (TDD,BDD)

·       Strong knowledge of software development life cycle

·       Experience in Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies

·       Experience with OpenText products is a plus