Quality assurance Engineer - Georgia IT Inc.

JOB TITLE: QA ENGINEER

LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NV         

JOB TYPE: CONTRACT

RATE: DOE           

U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time     

Roles & Responsibilities              

• Understanding of QA Automation best practices, automation frameworks (i.e. Selenium, Appium, UFT, Test Studio), test planning, script execution, and maintenance
• Understanding of software development
• Develop and maintain test plans; develop manual and automated test cases and associated for application projects
• Perform assigned testing as per the Test Plan; document and report all discovered problems
• Create and execute smoke/regression tests for revised applications
• Maintain records of all application testing; prepare reports summarizing testing results
• Collaborate with developers and users to optimize testing, defect isolation, and defect tracking
• Ability to formulate a test strategy based on technical specification documents and business requirements
• Effective communication to a diverse group of IT management, offshore teams, and business users is required.
• Candidates must have strong analytical and problem management skills to be able to resolve issues as they arise in the testing environments.
• The candidate must be able to multi-task across a wide range of test environments and projects.
• Prior experience participating in large, complex technology projects is required.
• Exposure to .Net technologies, web services, APIs, stored procedures, and middle-tier applications

Technical/Functional Skills

• Bachelor's degree, preferably computer related
• 3-5 years experience as a software tester with emphasis on writing test plans, manual and automated testing experience required
• 3-5 years' hands-on experience with automation suites including, Selenium, Appium, JMeter, NUnit, TestNG, Gherkin syntax or similar BDD frameworks, UFT
• 3-5 years of experience with web-enabling technologies, including web enterprise servers, web programming languages, SQL databases, and exposure to client/server development required
• Experience with end-to-end software system testing required
• Availability to work various shifts, extended hours and to provide on-call support as required.