QA Engineer IV ATI

QA Engineer IV ATI

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or certification or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years product testing and verification or related experience required.
• Expert experience with software test planning, execution and validation, expertise with various testing tools and methods (such as SQL, Robot Framework, QTest, Jira, ServiceNow).
• Demonstrated expertise with test environment managements, test collaboration, tools selection and implementation in a medium to large company with a global environment.
• Expert knowledge of business process and data flow identification and documentation.
• Demonstrated expertise with testing application interfaces (API) and data conversion.
• Expert knowledge of a specific application/technology.
• Expert understanding of hardware architectures.
• Experience with scripting preferred.
• Experienced with industry standard code review practices.
• Experience designing and implementing Cloud (AWS preferred) base testing environments.
• Extensive experience with mobile applications, as required.
• Advanced experience with database types (Relational, Object Oriented, Graph), schema tables, triggers, and query language (SQL, SOQL) preferred.
• Expert knowledge of the overall application development life cycle. Agile preferred.
• Ability to conduct test planning and execution with off-site resources.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and interpret business acumen.
• Capable of balancing multiple priorities and remain flexible in a changing environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Strong professional judgment with the ability to appropriately influence others as needed.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Expert understanding of hardware architectures.
• Experienced with industry standard code review practices.
• Demonstrated ability balancing multiple priorities and remain flexible in a changing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise professional judgment and the ability to appropriately influence others as needed.
• Ability to develop and manage multiple enterprise-wide test plans, meeting established deliverables and timelines.
• Expert ability to estimate testing efforts across their area of responsibility.
• Experience in Workday/PeopleSoft Finance and HR technology.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain the Quality Services testing environments.
• Review and collaborate on most complex testing activities.
• Responsible for ensuring epic test estimates are provided.
• Regularly reviews testing processes and recommends new processes and workflows as necessary to improve product quality and efficiency across large, complex projects.
• Plans and Estimates project work effort (functional and non-functional).
• Effectively provide and communicate estimates, assumptions, benefits, and risks to all levels of management.
• Collaborate with technical experts, business systems analyst and product owners to review epics across teams to provide high level estimates for future releases.
• Provide guidance to test leads on estimation of complex stories at the sprint and project level.
• Leverages expert knowledge to improve existing processes and tools while also thinking creatively to find or develop new solutions to support RH’s product delivery demands.
• Provide technical guidance and review test Approach strategies/test Plans including cases, objectives, scripts, expected results, and requirements mapping.
• Review, select and implement testing and quality management/measurement tools to support RHI’s product delivery demands.
• Define new and complex test strategies and resolve issues in approach and design.
• Propose mitigation plans on any risks identified.
• Plans and leads enterprise wide and cross system data migration testing strategy.
• Partners with the automation team on tools and strategies.
• Design, implement and maintain the Quality Services testing environments for their program.
• Draws on in-depth experience with system verification and validation testing to write and maintain detailed test cases/scripts that are aligned with user and business needs; provides helpful feedback to other quality staff to ensure excellence in testing.
• Reviews business requirements, functional specifications, and user information to understand end user requirements and business process context.
• Review with appropriate SMEs to validate understanding. Networks with other teams to ensure thorough input on system/solution needs.
• Design/maintain test plans including cycles, cases/conditions, expected results and requirement mapping.
• Reviews the teams’ regression suites to ensure all functionality is covered by the regression suites.
• Plans and leads data migration testing strategy and implementation for highly complex stories.
• Assists the automation team by removing roadblocks for automation.
• Research and verify issues as required. Provide appropriate detail to document issue for development team and context regarding impact and priority.
• Review issue reporting progress and process to ensure timely reporting visibility. Provides expert direction to other system testers.
• Regularly reviews verification and validation procedures and makes necessary improvements, ensuring that other quality staff are fully trained in new processes.
• Seeks new ways to improve the verification and validation process.
• Facilitate issue resolution with functional and technical groups on the most complex systems and solutions keeping senior leadership updated on the process.
• Educate/train/mentor testing staff and Business/Development peers.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and work guidance to test engineers.
• Can oversee multiple complex projects and coordinates the test activities across multiple test areas or disciplines (functional and non-functional).
• Drive issues across testing organization to resolution – working with development manager, release manager, program manager, system owner.
• Identify skills required and participate in the interview process for more experienced test resources and provide hiring recommendations to QA manager.
• Review and collaborate to orchestrate testing across departments on complex production work plans.
• Plans and leads data migration testing strategy and implementation.
• Writes and executes complex queries to verity conversion and data migration.
• Provides expert direction to members of the testing team during execution of tests and logging issues.
• Partners with the automation team to ensure successful development and execution of automated test scripts.
• Contributes expert knowledge in meeting with multiple participants (technical and non-technical). Leverages expertise to educate and mentor engineers across IT.
• Keeps management informed on progress against work plan, including risks and issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with scripting preferred.
• Experience designing and implementing Cloud (AWS preferred) base testing environments.
• Advanced experience with database types (Relational, Object Oriented, Graph), schema tables, triggers, and query language (SQL, SOQL) preferred.