This position is exempt and offers a hybrid work model, coming to our Headquarters located in Mount Prospect, IL two days a week.
As the Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring software quality through the design, development, and execution of manual and automated tests and frameworks, contributing to the delivery of high-quality software products. You will play a critical role in the software development lifecycle, from planning to deployment, by testing the software, reporting issues, and ensuring that all aspects of the software function as expected before release.
General Responsibilities
- Develops and implements comprehensive testing strategies.
- Ability to convert functional needs of the software into test cases.
- Ability to converse with relational databases to query data, create test data, and execute them.
- Designs, writes, executes, and maintains test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures.
- Identifies, tracks, and reports software defects.
- Leads deployment smoke testing and regression testing sessions.
- Works with the development team to ensure high-quality software development.
- Performs both manual and automated testing.
- Participates in product design reviews to provide feedback on potential issues.
- Drives innovation and streamlines overall testing processes.
- Ensures the latest industry practices and technologies are applied.
- Manages any potential risks related to product quality.
- Provides technical leadership and mentoring to other QA Engineers.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- 4 years of proven work experience as a Senior QA Engineer or similar role.
- 7 years or more experience with both manual and automated testing.
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
- 3 years of experience with performance and security testing.
- Experience with test automation tools, such as Selenium, Katalon, TestNG etc.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.