Senior Quality Engineer - .NET

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As a core member of our Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation (NQ) team, you will provide critical testing and analysis of changes made to our critical recordkeeping and client-facing applications that support our important customers. You will provide internal support to platform engineers, developers and analysts by designing and delivering quality tests, automating testing scenarios, validating requirements and providing regression testing.

In this rapid-paced environment, you must possess a "can-do" attitude while demonstrating a strong work ethic. You should enjoy solving complex problems and working independently, as well as, with our IT team and business partners. You will leverage your technical skills in a variety of ways to confirm the overall health of an application before new versions are released to production.

In this vital role, you are the last line of defense against the release of defects to our user population.

You will also have the rewarding opportunity to provide your leadership, guidance, and expertise to less experienced team members to help them build and develop their technical skills and business knowledge.

• 5+ years in a QA technical role completing application and software testing. 3+ years in automation testing or equivalent automation training

• Must have a strong QA background in manual, functional testing.

• Must have the ability to quickly comprehend project goals and requirements and to identify gaps, omissions, challenges, and impediments.

• 5+ years of strong SQL knowledge on Oracle or other databases.

• Strong experience in preparing test plans, test cases and test strategy documents.

• 5+ years of experience creating testing defect reports and tracking them to resolution in a defect management tool.

• 5+ years of experience in automation frameworks and related tools, such as Selenium, Cucumber, Java, Eclipse and Maven.

• Strong experience in writing BDD test cases (Gherkin format) and in requirement gathering.

• Strong experience in Functional Testing, End-to-End, Regression, and Smoke Testing.

• Experience with mobile testing.

• Experience in accessibility and security testing.

• Experience with testing Web Services, Web API and Python.

• Experience with JSON and XML.

• Experience with modern deployment models using Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline tools.

• Experienced with source code version control such as Git Lab.

• Experience on the AWS platform and services and other cloud products.

• Good knowledge of modern Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the agile methodology.

• Ability to evaluate and recommend AI-enabled quality engineering solutions that reduce manual effort, improve test stability, and enhance overall quality strategy.

• Leadership and mentoring skills to provide guidance and expertise to less senior team members, to help them grow their skills and knowledge.

• May be required to assist with planning and tracking of less senior team members’ work.

• Excellent written and verbal skills and ability to influence and build relationships at all levels of the organization.

• Detail oriented, self-starter with strong organizational skills to multitask and ability to work independently or as part of a team.

• Enthusiasm to work and learn in a team environment with experience of working in teams spread across multiple locations.

• Should show continuous interest in upskilling and quickly adapting to emerging tools and technologies.

• Able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines while remaining professional and…