Test Engineer

Test Engineer

The Test Engineer will interface with Project Management, Application Development, and leadership. This position is responsible for ensuring that all testing work items are delivered in a quality manner. This includes delivery without critical defects, in accordance with the schedule, with the highest degree of accuracy and quality. This position plans and executes required testing for systems and applications, while collaborating with team members on test plans, test case creation and execution.

Essential Accountabilities:

Level I

• Develops and maintains business domain subject matter expertise of a given Product Family, to assist with the design and creation of the testing scope and test plan for any incoming project work within the Product Family.

• Analyzes requirements and technical specifications to build appropriate test cases and find or create appropriate test data.

• Conducts test case reviews with the agile team to ensure proper coverage of the requirements.

• Documents, administers, and executes manual and automated (where appropriate) test cases, test procedures/scripts, per the test scope/plan, for all testing types and functions.

• Works with Test Automation Engineer(s) to define what aspects of testing should be automated and provides the test cases for them to code in an automation tool.

• Ensures test results are accurately recorded in the appropriate tool.

• Interprets, analyzes, and communicates test results to agile teams, stakeholders and management in a clear, consistent, and timely manner.

• Creates defects for issues found during testing.

• Provides detailed information on recreation steps, environment found, components impacted, error logs, test data utilized, etc.

• Monitors defects and assist developers or other team members with triage.

• Attends team agile meetings and product/project related functions as required.

• Collaborates with agile team to meet the overall sprint and milestone goals and deliverables.

• Raises risks or issues to the agile team or others as appropriate, to maintain transparency and proactively help the team's find resolutions.

• Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Lifetime Healthcare Companies' mission and values and adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct and Leading to the Lifetime Way values and beliefs.

• Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.

• Regular reliable attendance is expected and required.

• Performs other functions assigned by management.

Level II (in addition to Level I Accountabilities)

• Recommends opportunities for productivity and process improvements.

• Scopes and plans all testing efforts.

• Works on multiple projects, while ensuring testing activities are completed on time.

• Stays current on new tools and technologies, continuously looking for opportunities to improve.

• Mentors less experienced testers in specific business knowledge areas and/or testing techniques.

Level III (in addition to Level II Accountabilities)

• Implements recommended productivity and process improvements such as:

o Implementing advanced testing techniques

o Metric tracking

o Identifying automation opportunities

• Acts as a subject matter expert with testing methodologies.

• Develops, defines, and implements test standards and guidelines.

Level IV (in addition to Level III Accountabilities)

• Leads and owns the efforts to define the testing strategies, scope, and plans for multiple projects within a product family portfolio. This includes but is not limited to:

o Defining types of testing needed.

o Reviewing test environment dependencies, limitations.

o Defining what test data will be required (high level).

o Coordinating testing that might span multiple teams or projects (managing dependencies).

o Ensuring test cases are properly written, structured, organized and updated, per the agile standards.

• Attends core team meetings as a lead representative, providing testing and defect progress updates, in addition to risk and mitigation information.

• Acts as a representative for the testing organization, sharing project status, resolving barriers to testing…