Sr QA Engineer

Posted:
3/6/2025, 8:44:36 AM

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Important Information

Experience: +6 years

Job Mode: Full-time

Work Mode: Work from home

 

Responsibilities and Duties

  • Collaborate closely with the Product and Engineering teams to understand and test our products
  • Work in a scrum team to define and refine user stories with clear acceptance criteria
  • Plan and implement testing strategies for new and existing features
  • Bolster and improve existing test suites to increase deployment confidence and speed
  • Execute functional and non-functional tests including exploratory testing
  • Review and improve our tests and coverage for our products
  • Research, implement and Improve testing tools and processes for your teams
  • Analyze defects to determine how to improve our development process
  • Work with their teams to perform root cause analysis, identify trends and corrective actions
  • Proactively assess, prevent and communicate risks

Qualifications and Skills

  • 6+ years of experience testing modern web applications in an agile environment 
  • 6+ years of experience testing APIs, both manually and programmatically 
  • Expertise in using business requirements to define test cases and testing activities from concept through implementation and deployment
  • Experience in planning, organizing and implementing test data for our testing needs
  • Experience in developing and maintaining automated test suites using open source frameworks
  • Experience with scripting and/or object oriented languages like Javascript, Ruby, Kotlin, Java etc.
  • Experience with version control and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Codeship etc.
  • An instinct and understanding of where software might fail, and how to track down failures at various layers of an application stack
  • Curiosity, attention to detail, customer focused mindset and passion for delivering business value through testing in a timely manner
  • Excellent prioritization skills with an ability to multi-task and clear, concise communication

Nice to have skills

  • Ability to review unit and integration tests and use the information to balance holistic testing coverage and activities
  • Experience working with integration and contract testing tools and frameworks such as PACT, Wiremock etc.
  • Experience working with developer centric testing and monitoring tools such as Optimizely, DataDog etc.

 

About Encora 

Encora is a global company that offers Software and Digital Engineering solutions. Our practices include Cloud Services, Product Engineering & Application Modernization, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience & Design Services, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Quality Engineering, AI & LLM Engineering, among others. 

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.