Description
The Staff Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for the holistic end-to-end testing of the different components that make our platform great. The QA Engineer works as a team member along with the Product Manager, Development Team and UI/UX and has the overall responsibility of verifying our products work as designed, reporting issues when there is a misalignment between requirements and implementation and ensuring those issues are properly addressed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead a QA team in scaling across multiple products
• Define the test strategy and plan for new development efforts, and own the creation and ongoing maintenance of test process documentation and test plans
• Coordinate priorities of local and offshore QA team(s)
• Develop and document test plans and test cases from user stories and requirements
• Hands on experience testing web, RESTful, and microservice based applications
• Review and recommend improvements of test plans
• Perform regression and functional testing
• Implement continuous Test Driven Design and testing automation
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks
• Experience with agile methodology and software engineering best practices in an onshore-offshore model.
• Report status of testing to appropriate teams
• Must be able to set your own priorities, you will often be called upon to solve complex issues on your own
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or related field(s), or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of QA experience in a customer facing software environment
• Experience writing multi-table queries in SQL
• Hands-on experience debugging server side web applications
• Hands-on experience with automated UI testing tool across a variety of web browsers
• Solid understanding of web application architecture and technologies
• Experience with relational databases

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience writing multi-table queries in SQL
• Proficiency with one programming language such as Perl, Bash, PHP, Python, C, C++, Java, C#
• Hands-on experience testing database-intensive web applications
• Prior experience implementing testing automation
• Experience integrating other code quality tools such as code coverage, static analysis into the quality process
• Experience building QA reporting dashboards
• Hands-on experience with an automated UI testing tool across a variety of web browsers
• Expertise using continuous integration tools such as CruiseControl