QA Engineer - Senior

Company: Marel
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

QA Engineer - Job Description

As a QA Engineer you will be working with a cross functional team of software-, test- and infrastructure engineers responsible for Marel's software solutions and SaaS platform. We're looking for a person that is passionate about collaboration and whole team quality.

Our vision is to create a uniform and consistent product, and to continuously deliver safe, quality software directly to our customers.

Your role is to support multiple teams during product development to define what should be tested and how. You will coordinate and prioritize testing activities, create test plans and verify their execution. Track bug reports and record any non-conformities to be used for continuously improving our product and processes. You will introduce the automated testing framework for our SAAS solution and lead and coordinate implementation of the automated tests.

As well as collaborating with the internal product development teams, you will belong to a team of professional QA analysts and engineers where we expect you to contribute to our overall QA and testing strategy, development of test environments and test data.

This position requires you to attend early morning meetings (7am PST onwards), and you must have the possibility of travelling to Europe if needed.

As a QA Engineer, You will

• Coordinate, plan and prioritize testing activities
• Identify and manage testing efforts for products under development
• Write test plans collaborating with program manager and development team
• Verify the execution of test plans
• Execute manual tests
• Set up a testing framework and lead implementation and maintenance of automated end-to-end tests ( APIs , microservices)
• Identify and report software bugs and defects
• Verify and track incoming bug reports
• Help improve the process for incoming software bugs and defects
• Define, create and maintain test data in cooperation with other testers and developers
• Contribute to test reports and statistics
• Manage and execute release tests
• Report non-conformities for newly released products
• Participate in specifying and evolving overall QA and testing processes
• Keeping test environments system specifications up to date

Our Ideal Candidate will have

• 5+ years' experience of software testing
• Experience to start from scratch, ground-up, Start-up mentality
• Experience of testing SaaS applications
• Experience with Cypress or other JavaScript frameworks
• Experience with performance and stress testing - front-end , microservices, APIs etc.
• Able to explain objectives of different testing approaches
• Able to suggest new tools with confidence and justification
• Confident in suggesting and rationalizing test approaches
• Good understanding of software development processes
• Understands the importance of testing and quality assurance as part of software development
• Familiar with continuous integration and a typical software lifecycle (branch, build, release, deploy)
• Effortlessly uses virtual machines
• General understanding of application deployment and configuration
• Understands databases and is able to perform basic operations and write SQL queries
• Used to collaborating on platforms such as Teams and Confluence
• Solid groundings in managing tests and test cases in Azure DevOps
• ISTQB certification or equivalent (Nice to have)
• Outgoing and proactive
• Has good people and communication skills
• Collaborative and team player

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