Senior Quality Engineer Jobs

The Role: Senior Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance
Location: US remote, or hybrid. MST-EST time zones required.
GL: 10 (relevant for internal applicants only)
The Team: The team works in an Agile environment and adheres to all basic principles of Agile. As a Quality Engineer, you will work with a team of intelligent, ambitious, and hard-working software professionals. The team is independent in driving all decisions and responsible for the architecture, design, and development of our products with high quality.
The Impact:
Achieve Individual objectives and contribute to the achievement of team objectives.
Work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
Build and maintain automation scripts for regression testing.
Achieve the above intelligently and economically using QA best practices.
What is in it for you:
Be part of a successful team that works on delivering top-priority projects which will directly contribute to the Company’s strategy. Drive the testing initiatives including supporting Automation strategy. This is the place to enhance your Testing skills while adding value to the business. As an experienced member of the team, you will have the opportunity to own and drive a project end to end and collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product managers who are experts in their domain which can help you to build multiple skill sets.
Responsibilities:As a Quality Engineer, you are responsible for:
Defining Quality Metrics: Defining quality standards and metrics for the current project/product. Working with all stakeholders to ensure that the quality metrics are reviewed, closed, and agreed upon. Create a list of milestones and checkpoints and set measurable criteria to check the quality on a timely basis.
Defining Testing Strategies: Defining processes for the test plan and several phases of the testing cycle. Planning and scheduling several milestones and tasks like alpha and beta testing. Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance, and issue tracking. Work closely on the deadlines of the project. Ensure, you are focusing on automation along with manual testing. Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project. Thinking of continuous innovation. Review test strategies and see that all the various kinds of testing like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance, etc. are getting covered.
Managing Risks: Understanding and defining areas to calculate the overall risk to the project. Creating strategies to mitigate those risks and take necessary measures to control the risks. Communicating or creating awareness among all the stakeholders for the various risks Understand & review the current risks and escalate.
Process Improvements: Challenge yourself continuously to move towards automation for all daily work and help others in the automation. Create milestones for yearly improvement projects and set. Work with the development team to ensure that the quality engineers get apt support like automation hooks or debug builds wherever and whenever possible
Responsibilities:
Work in partnership with Scrum team members, including engineering and product management, to deliver business functionality on time, with the required quality, and that meets the acceptance criteria
Write test cases and scenarios from the requirements/designs; manage bug tracking.
Create and maintain automation scripts for critical test scenarios that can be utilized for regression testing.
Trigger, monitor, and control the execution of automated test suites, identifying issues and potential gaps.
Collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to analyze, debug and resolve any issues.
Uses strong testing skills to provide guidance and assist project staff and junior members.
Reviews and approves the work of project team members in the writing of scripts, expected results, test results, and defect descriptions. Ensures best practices are followed and testing activities stay on schedule.
Works closely with the product team to monitor bug queue and work through triage and resolution of issues, especially customer-reported bugs.
Participate in internal/cross-team meetings, project scoping, functional reviews, test specifications, and technical reviews for assigned projects in an Agile environment.
Participate actively in functional, system, and regression testing activities.
Participate in production releases to perform post-release validations and provide sign-off as well as on-call support.
Capture quality assurance data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions.
What we are looking for:Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's/PG degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
5+ years of strong experience in QA/testing.
Excellent Analytical and communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies
Good knowledge of database testing tools like SQL, and Oracle and the ability to build and run complex queries.
Good knowledge of coding skills in any programmatic language, preferably Python
Working knowledge of CT pipelines like Jenkins or Maven.
Good knowledge of tools like Postman, and SOAPUI for API testing.
Knowledge of performance testing and accessibility testing preferred.
Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $70,300 - $120,500 . Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit Our Benefits (spgbenefits.com) .
About S&P Global
S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.
S&P Global Market Intelligence partners with customers to broaden their perspective and operate with confidence by bringing them leading data sources and technologies that embed insight in their daily work.
We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
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Job ID: 278220
Posted On: 2023-05-03
Location: Virtual, Colombia