We have an exciting opportunity for a QA Engineer. This is a hybrid role in the Round Rock, TX area. This role will develop and support application testing strategies, create test plans and test scripts. Lead and coordinate quality assurance and testing activities in support of ERCOT projects with business testers. Perform system, regression, and functional testing. Create testing timelines for projects, including milestones, and provide daily updates to the project team of progress against timeline. Create reports and dashboards on defect metrics and testing progress using test management tool (Qtest). Develop automation framework.
Essential Job Duties
Analyze and understand solution requirements, architecture, technical designs and processes in order to define necessary scope of automated testing.
Coordinate functional, technical and vendor resources in testing efforts to ensure ERCOT testing process and procedure are followed.
Develop test strategy, test plan and communicate strategy to relevant disciplines/stakeholders clearly and appropriately.
Develop and modify test scenarios and test scripts
Perform manual and automated system, regression and functional testing.
Perform day-to-day coordination of testing activities
Review test scripts to ensure appropriate tests are created and executed correctly to verify requirements
Manage testing effort and defects though defect lifecycle
Create testing progress reports, dashboard and test coverage using test management tool Qtest
Develop and promote quality testing practices
Ensure that testing is completed to agreed standards and that business and operational acceptance criteria are met
Liaise with other management and IT disciplines to ensure project testing objectives are met
Report to management on testing and quality requirements/activities in order to identify any deviations from plan and to carry out any necessary corrective action
Supports test data requests
In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, perform tasks assigned by the supervisor and manager
Report to management on automated and manual testing and quality requirements/activities, to identify deviations from plan and carry out corrective action.
Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules or potential problems that may impact the quality of automation regression suite or overall product features.
In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to develop automation scripts assigned by the supervisor/manager as being required by projects.
Required Skills:
5 years of experience in automated testing
5 years of experience with Qtest and JIRA
Experience with TOSCA and Selenium test automation tool
Experience with general software development life cycle practices.
Oracle RDBMS. This includes competency with PL/SQL and a general familiarity with general concepts such as relational database analysis and design as well as SQL tuning.
Experience with general Software Quality Assurance/Quality Control testing techniques, standards, practices, and related technologies.
What we Offer:
Competitive Compensation
Medical, Dental, Vision insurance Options
Critical Illness, Accidental Death and Optional Life insurance options.
This is a long term contract. Candidates must already be located in Austin, Texas. Luna Data Solutions, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, national origin, genetics, protected veteran status, and/or disability status.