Test Consultant

Responsibilities

• Participates in all steps of the software development life cycle and is accountable for helping to deliver quality code.
• Collaborates with peers to identify and recommend practices for quality assurance at the source using automation.
• Conducts impact analysis, evaluates and identifies effects on regression test suites, code testability, and application performance to reduce negative influences on continuous testing.
• Performs quality checks and updates automation scripts.
• Identifies and designs testing suites for test‑driven development (TDD) and behavior‑driven development (BDD) to allow early and frequent testing during software development.
• Identifies process improvement and continuous quality measures across the development lifecycle.
• Writes and executes application tests at the source code level to prevent hidden errors (white‑box testing) within unit and component testing.
• Identifies and suggests improvements for code quality to address deficiencies from functionality through code structure for performance and maintainability.
• Builds, maintains, and reviews mid‑level unit and component test suites and conducts automated white‑box tests.
• Identifies improper coding and code quality issues.
• Integrates white‑box test suites with continuous integration (CI) tools.
• Programs and creates mid‑level test cases using unit and component testing tools for code‑level testing.
• Develops moderately complex software tools, frameworks, and utilities for validation/verification activities and end‑to‑end functional testing of software.
• Identifies and recommends tools and frameworks for testing and creates automated tools for generic use and maintainability.
• Writes moderately complex code that exercises non‑user‑interface (UI) components such as application program interfaces (APIs), representational state transfer APIs (RESTful APIs), and web services to develop testing frameworks.
• Integrates automated suites with continuous integration (CI) tools for frequent execution.
• Installs and uses moderately complex CI frameworks in continuous testing and continuous deployment/delivery.
• Builds, customizes, and deploys moderately complex test environments and test automation frameworks.
• Performs moderately complex scripting, data generation, and other methods to maintain automation infrastructure throughout development.
• Integrates CI tools with other testing infrastructure and develops moderately complex reporting/metrics on CI.
• Develops test scripts, test data, analyzes, and interprets performance, load, and security testing.
• Conducts testing and analysis, and interprets results using service virtualization testing tools that emulate the behavior of necessary dependent system components.
• Identifies virtualization testing opportunities and designs to test virtualized environments.
• Identifies performance testing opportunities and designs to test application performance, load, security, and service virtualization.
• Analyzes system and database performance and responses during loads.
• Directs tests to avoid common application performance bottlenecks.
• Maintains and administers procedures, methodologies, and/or application standards to include payment card industry and security‑related testing compliance using automation and built‑in security tests during development.
• Applies virtualization concepts to identify tests and application scenarios impacted by virtualization.
• Incorporates performance, load, and security testing into CI environments.
• Works with stakeholders, business, developers, and test analysts to develop more intricate test plans, conditions, and cases for testing.
• Develops and administers best practices for test data conditioning and execution of test sets.
• Works with programming to create specific account conditions and execute special testing requirements for test validation.
• Demonstrates a broad knowledge of multiple environments by evaluating, interpreting, and communicating an understanding of system and application components to leadership.
• Acts as a single point of contact for assigned moderately complex client projects with regard to test engineering activities.
• Coordinates the test activities assigned to the test…