We are looking for a dynamic Software QA Engineer who thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. This individual will partner closely with our engineering team to define, execute and manage a quality assurance and release management framework. The role of the QA is to implement the tools and processes that ensure software products and solutions function as designed, meeting or exceeding quality, security and audit standards. To succeed in this role, you should be a talented and experienced quality assurance professional with in-depth knowledge of and hands on experience defining, implementing and managing the quality assurance and release management function in a SaaS business technologies solution environment.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop and implement quality assurance processes, reporting and technologies, manage the quality assurance process and establish quality assurance criteria and standards.
Define and execute release management processes and technologies, including environment management and planning, release packaging, quality assurance, validation and the migration of changes into production.
Collaborate with internal and external audit, security and security operations to assure quality assurance and release management processes meet or exceed standards.
Establish and manage a quality assurance and release management framework that describes and defines the quality assurance processes and standards to be applied to business technology implementation programs, and manage the adoption of this framework.
Collaborate with operation managers in adopting quality assurance processes and standards into their operations.
Lead the design and adoption of test strategies & test plans, detailed test cases, test scripts, test estimates, progress reports for test executions, various defect and statistical data reports, etc.
Lead the design of release strategies, environment plans, migration plans, migration readiness, and migration approvals.
Work with developers, solution leads and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues.
Champion quality and excellence throughout the IT Department.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor' s degree and at least 5 years of Quality Assurance experience in software.
Proven track record managing the adoption of quality assurance methodologies and technologies in a SaaS business solutions environment.
Demonstrate hands-on software QA experience in both manual and automated testing while driving the vision, strategy, and planning for manual and automated testing.
Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork in addressing decisions and resolving issues.
Polished presenter and self-starter who can communicate effectively to a diverse audience of business and technical stakeholders.
Ability to foster an approach to continuous improvement in all of our QA activities
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and a strong sense of diplomacy in all of your interactions
Knowledge of bug tracking, version control, build automation and test case control systems (e.g. JIRA, Sentry, SVN, GIT, Eclipse, Jenkins).
Implementation knowledge of QA Automation testing tools like Provar or Selenium.
