Software Test Engineer - Randstad USA

job summary:

Description:

As a Software Test Engineer, you will contribute to quality assurance of software systems and/or applications.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications.

- Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.

- Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.

- Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing

- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.

- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.

- Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases

- Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.

- Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed

- Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness

- Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.

- Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Client's management from time to time.

Techinical Skills Required:

• 5 years or more of software testing experience (manual or automation) or at least 3 years of experience with master's degree in computer science or related field.
  
  
• 3 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience
  
  
• 3 years or more of prior either functional or object- oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like C++, Java or Python (preferably Java)
  
  
• Strong development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java/Junit, Python, Cucumber, JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks

Desired Skills:

• Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
  
  
• Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.
  
  
• End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms
  
  
• Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data
  
  
• Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs)
  
  
• The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
  
  
• Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
  
  
• Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired
  
  
• Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus
  
  
• Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Jenkins, Git)
  
  
• At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
  
  
• Understanding of a micro service Architecture
  
  
• Experience load and performance testing

Soft Skills Required:

• Strong documentation skills
  
  
• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
  
  
• Pro-active, flexible and creative
  
  
• Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.

Education & Experience Required:

• Degree with 10+ years experience
  
  
• Master degree with 8+ years experience

 
location: Chicago, Illinois
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 78 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, you will contribute to quality assurance of software systems and/or app