QA Automation Engineer

OPPORTUNITY:

As a member of the Quality Assurance (QA) Engineering Department, QA Automation Engineers work closely with the Development and Product Management teams to develop quality software products. The QA Automation Engineer will need to possess imagination and creativity, along with the ability to provide expert level software testing skills, communication skills, and experience working in an agile development environment.

This position will be based out of our Bethesda, MD office.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Execute Integration, System, Functional, and Regression test cases using both manual and automated testing approaches.
• Work in support of the QA lead to help streamline testing processes for evaluating application features and determining software quality.
• Contribute to product and process improvement discussions and the refinement of QA best practices.
• Help stand up an automation framework from scratch and mentor the QA team in automation best practices.
• Perform debugging and root cause analysis of product failures and log software defects.
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential project risks.
• Help build scalable and reusable testing documentation in support of both manual and automated testing efforts.

 REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Passion for software Quality Assurance methodologies and process improvement
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment (Development, QA, Product Management, Support).
• Effective analytical and technical troubleshooting skills.  You are able to diagnose technical issues down to the level of distinguishing between hardware, software, network, and/or operating system root causes.
• A proactive spirit that will lead to continuous learning and knowledge gathering in the areas of software development, application infrastructure, product development, and of course Quality Assurance best practices
• Able to understand and troubleshoot a complex, multi-server architecture
• Ability to clearly articulate product documentation and help maintain over time 

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 3+ years of technical experience strongly related to Quality Assurance/Testing and evaluation of system architecture and web applications
• Proven automation experience, and experience/opinions on applicable scripting languages
• Experience with the following tools is a plus: Katalon Studio, FrogLogic Squish, Cypress.io, Eggplant
• Experience with automated testing of embedded software/systems/applications and devices
• Experience serving as a subject matter expert within a testing team on test process development and software quality measurements
• Browser, infrastructure, and remote device testing (including debug tools)
• Web Services and REST Services
• System, Integration, Regression, and Functional testing approaches
• Source control systems and code branching methodologies (Git preferred)
• Adhere to all organizational information security policies and protect all sensitive information including but not limited to ePHI and PHI in accordance with organizational policy and Federal, State, and local regulations