Software QA Engineer (manual and/or automation)

Liaison International, is unique in that we are an established and stable organization but have that fastpaced energy and feel of an emerging technology company. It is a place to work with fun, smart, collaborative, and driven people. Our SaaS based admissions management and enrollment marketing software and services helps millions of students take the next step in their academic career and is utilized by over 31,000 academic programs at more than 1,000 institutions.

The QA Engineer is responsible for designing and executing the overall testing strategy including functional and performance testing activities for a broad range of applications and platforms. This individual will drive testing strategy with the appropriate combination of business knowledge and technical leadership. The SDET will work closely with software architects and technical leads to define test plans for reliable automated functional testing and scalable performance testing of existing software and new features in development. Duties include creating quality standards for products and testing systems for efficiency, reliability and performance.

Position Responsibilities

• Create automated functional and performance tests.
• Analyze and report test execution results and test coverage metrics.
• Investigate issues with automation test scripts and follow-up. This includes creating new defect tickets, repairing automated tests, and working with DevOps to resolve environment issues.
• Organize and manage test design and implementation tasks on one or more project.
• Review product requirements to identify when requirements are missing, incorrect, or lack clarity.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases for end-to-end scenarios, application integration use cases, and customer reported issues.
• Conduct manual testing to learn new application behavior and facilitate creating automated tests.
• Communicate test status, issues and risks to deployment.
• Work with software development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.
• Work collaboratively with team members and peers to complete sprint assignments and produce high quality software.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline, or its equivalent plus 2 years of related experience. Alternatively, will accept a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus 5 years related experience, in lieu of a master’s degree.
• Experience in functional, non-functional, performance, regression and acceptance testing.
• Hands on experience in QA automation tools such as Selenium.
• Ability to work independently and also in a team environment on multiple projects.
• Knowledge of agile software methodology and use of JIRA.
• Experience writing UI tests for applications using Javascript frameworks, e.g. Angular and React
• Experience writing API integration tests for REST APIs and Java applications
• Experience with Section 508 web application accessibility testing.
• Experience testing relational database applications, including executing SQL scripts to check test results.
• Excellent understanding of behavior driven testing and use of tools such as Cucumber.
• Experience working with software requirements specifications and user documentation.
• Creative thinking in identifying ways to break the application while doing functional testing.
• Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and software releases.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
• Experience working with in office, remote and offshore teams.
• Experience reviewing selenium tests and cucumber feature files and understanding of system and console logs.
• Experience with continuous integration environment such as Jenkins or Travis CI.