QA Automation Engineer - Hybrid Onsite in Charlotte at Vaco, LLC
Charlotte, NC 28208
About the Job
The ideal candidate will lead functional and automated testing of our in-house warehouse design and simulation tool. This will include full-cycle testing, from requirements analysis to creating strategies and test cases, conducting manual functional testing, creating and maintaining automated test scripts, managing defect tracking, and collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
What you’ll do
- Guide the QA team to validate a complex, distributed, multi-threaded, multiprocessor system end-to-end, ensuring quality in mission-critical product releases to multiple production sites.
- Create strategies and tests new product features in addition to executing regression of existing features.
- Work with development teams to develop test plans, test suites, and test cases to ensure that software stack is thoroughly verified and validated through manual and automated methods.
- Submit, track, and verify defects through the software development lifecycle.
- Write documents, tests, scripts, and tools to help facilitate testing.
- Participate in Agile/SCRUM exercises such as standup, grooming, planning, and retrospective, to ensure the team is working effectively and managing its work.
- Travel up to 10% to customer sites to provide engineering support.
- Bachelor’s degree is required (computer science or related is preferred) and 5+ of relevant experience.
- Experience in guiding QA team members.
- Strong knowledge of Test Framework design practices, understanding of the implementation of the testing framework from scratch.
- Ability to evaluate and develop code to assist in test execution and automating tests, with C#
- Test automation framework experience with Selenium
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and experience with testing web-based applications, databases and APIs
- Experience with developing test plans and strategies for functional and automation tests.
- Experience implementing automation tests using Selenium.
- Experience evaluating software and products and delivering effective test plans, test suites, and test cases.
- Defect tracking and test case management experience using tools such as Jira and TestRail
The ideal candidate will lead functional and automated testing of our in-house warehouse design and simulation tool. This will include full-cycle testing, from requirements analysis to creating strategies and test cases, conducting manual functional testing, creating and maintaining automated test scripts, managing defect tracking, and collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
What you’ll do
- Guide the QA team to validate a complex, distributed, multi-threaded, multiprocessor system end-to-end, ensuring quality in mission-critical product releases to multiple production sites.
- Create strategies and tests new product features in addition to executing regression of existing features.
- Work with development teams to develop test plans, test suites, and test cases to ensure that software stack is thoroughly verified and validated through manual and automated methods.
- Submit, track, and verify defects through the software development lifecycle.
- Write documents, tests, scripts, and tools to help facilitate testing.
- Participate in Agile/SCRUM exercises such as standup, grooming, planning, and retrospective, to ensure the team is working effectively and managing its work.
- Travel up to 10% to customer sites to provide engineering support.
- Bachelor’s degree is required (computer science or related is preferred) and 5+ of relevant experience.
- Experience in guiding QA team members.
- Strong knowledge of Test Framework design practices, understanding of the implementation of the testing framework from scratch.
- Ability to evaluate and develop code to assist in test execution and automating tests, with C#
- Test automation framework experience with Selenium
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and experience with testing web-based applications, databases and APIs
- Experience with developing test plans and strategies for functional and automation tests.
- Experience implementing automation tests using Selenium.
- Experience evaluating software and products and delivering effective test plans, test suites, and test cases.
- Defect tracking and test case management experience using tools such as Jira and TestRail
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
