Sr. QA Engineer
**** As a Senior QA Engineer, you will ensure that through Quality Management, CCC continues to improve the level of Quality Assurance in terms of department capabilities, personnel growth, transparency, clarity and ultimately, efficiency. The position will be oriented to define different processes to accomplish all those objectives previously mentioned.
What you will be doing
- Documenting and implementing test strategies, plans, processes and standards;
- Reviewing and revising acceptance criteria for accuracy, clarity and completeness and providing task estimates for the creation and execution of manual and automated tests, reporting to the Project Manager any variance that may jeopardize the project;
- Assessing risks and have them being communicated to the Project Manager, and ensuring the availability and good health of the testing environments;
- Creating, maintaining and executing manual test scripts to perform functional testing, test scripts for non-functional testing and maintenance and extension of the test automation suite and analyzing and reporting overall test status and results to the project team;
- Creating and maintaining relevant project QA documentation, Identifying and reporting defects and issues that arise during testing and evaluating and ensuring that appropriate testing tools are selected and applied for optimum value;
- Providing testing support and coaching for junior members of the testing team, sharing any valuable experience and findings to the QA Practice Team;
- Providing peer review of test automation implementation, and input and research findings to QA Management;
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with 3 years as a Lead/Senior QA Engineer/Tester;
- Experienced writing and implementing test strategies, test plans and contributing to QA process improvement initiatives;
- Hands‐on functional testing experience including end-to-end testing and regression testing, both manual and automated;
- Experience working in an agile testing environment, is familiar with SCRUM and with testing within a SCRUM team and experience collaborating with Development, Business Analysts, Product Owner(s) and other relevant stakeholders;
- Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming & Java Programming Language and experience with version control systems, such as GIT or SVN and Build systems like Maven and Gradle, automated testing and automation testing tools, plus an interest in working with Open Source testing tools e.g. Selenium WebDriver;
- Understanding of HTTP, REST architecture style and testing against endpoints, and experience and knowledge in writing SQL statements to query the backend of the different systems;
- Ability to demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills, with proven ability to investigate complex issues, make informed decisions when guidelines are not available, estimate time to complete tasks based on stories / requirements and to construct Sprint test plans based on initial estimates;
- Ability to switch context quickly and being able to work in several projects/streams of work in the same sprint and adapt the plans if project circumstances change. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
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When you join CCC, you become part of a dynamic organization strengthened by our community. We care about our team members and clients. We strive to create advanced technology in a vibrant, innovative culture. CCC provides excellent benefits.
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