QA Test Engineer
Company: Amain Com Inc
Location: Chico
Posted on: April 26, 2024
Job Description:
Position: Quality Assurance - Test Engineer
Location: Chico, CA - with option to work a hybrid schedule a few
days in the office each week
Department: IT
Reports to: Manager IT
Salary: $85,000 - $110,000
Summary:
This position requires someone who is a proactive, meticulous
critical thinker, who has a passion for ensuring the quality of
software application deliverables that are crucial to the daily
operations of the AMain organization. This position will be
responsible for all aspects of quality assurance, including
creating and executing test plans, understanding project-based
business requirements, analyzing, and reporting testing results,
and ensuring the successful implementation and support of IT
projects.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Using predefined requirements and specifications, develops,
maintains, and executes detailed test plans, both automated and
manual, for verification of software functionality, security, user
accessibility and performance.
- Monitors GitHub pull requests to select, build, and test
specific software versions, utilizing MS Visual Studio or JetBrains
Rider. When needed understand how to step through the code base to
debug and identify points of failure.
- Identifies, documents, and tracks software defects and issues
using established bug tracking tools and guidelines.
- Communicates testing progress, testing results, and other
relevant information to the software development team, project
stakeholders and management.
- Collaborates with AMain's various business units to diagnose,
recreate, and resolve production support issues related to AMain's
suite of internal / external applications. When appropriate
communicates these issues back to the development team for further
investigation and resolution.
- Identifies system improvement opportunities based on tracking
product support requests or repetitive issues and makes solution
recommendations to the development team, stakeholders, and
management.
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related
code.
- Participates in the planning of application maintenance &
enhancement activities / projects including testing, deployment
planning, support phase preparation.
- Assists in researching and development of an automated testing
strategy using agreed upon platform and CI/CD processes.
- Provide support to the user community by monitoring and timely
responding to service support issues.
- Acquires sufficient knowledge of the workflows for the
different business areas within AMain, with the ability to apply
this knowledge to their testing and support responsibilities.
Requirements
Qualifications / Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent with 3+
years of experience in a range of software testing roles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability
to troubleshoot complex technical issues, using Root Cause
analysis.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles
utilizing C# and .NET, including the ability to develop, build, and
debug source code within the MS Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider
IDEs.
- Experience supporting complex .Net web-based applications,
utilizing C#, ASP.NET MVC and MySQL.
- Proficient with Web UI technologies including HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript Frameworks.
- Experience with object-oriented design principles, design
patterns and software architectures.
- Experience with relational database solutions utilizing MySQL
version 5.7 or higher, including experience in queries, stored
procedures, triggers, and database design.
- Experience with source control management systems and
continuous integration/deployment environments, including Git.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Enjoys
collaboration with other professionals and the user community.
- Demonstrates Critical Thinking, when evaluating ideas,
approaches, and information. Can clearly explain end-to-end
solutions and rationale for a chosen approach.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and
diligently, without close supervision. Well organized, with the
ability to adapt to changing business requirements. Nice to Haves:
- Experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium,
Appium, and Cucumber
- Experience with the Page Object Model testing design
pattern.
- Experience with API testing tools, such as Postman, Swagger,
and SoapUI.
- Experience with Noibu error detection platform.
- Knowledge of batch files and scripting.
- Proficiency with the Microsoft O365 platform. Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
regularly required to sit and use hands.
- The employee is frequently required to talk or listen.
- The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop,
kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or
move up to 25 pounds.
- Requires close vision at 20 inches or less.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Salary Description
$85,000 - $110,000 / year
Keywords: Amain Com Inc, Chico , QA Test Engineer, Engineering , Chico, California
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