Company:
Highbrow LLC
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Closing Date: 17/10/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Job Title : Lead Quality Engineer
Job ID: 2022-11895
Job Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL (onsite reporting required)
Job Travel Location(s):
# Positions: 2
Employment Type: W2
Candidate Constraints:
Duration: Long Term
# of Layers: 0
Work Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required
Key Technology: financial services industry experience, automation, Java, JSON, Jenkins, relational databases
Job Responsibilities:
- Provides quick feedback throughout the development and design process; analyzes / reports on the test results to confirm that the quality of the intended solution is met.
- Supports test planning (including testability of requirement), test design/development test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes.
- Integrates directly into a team’s continuous delivery process, augmenting the delivery of quality software and ensuring speed, agility and risk management.
- Serve as a partner and provide ongoing support to the enterprise and/or business, aligning to Testing Methodology and QE best-practices.
- Analyze the end-to-end solution (business, solution requirements, architecture, blueprints, etc.) requirements to recommend pragmatic solutions for own area; may analyze, develop, debug, and maintain test suites (automated/manual), traceability matrix; and log defects/assist in defect resolution, as required.
- Hands on experience implementing effective test strategies and providing guidance to delivery teams in using tools, setting environments that support on-going quality and traceability.
- Support the team in test activities across the testing lifecycle, with a focus on value driven outcomes, and assist in defining test data and test environment requirements.
- Leverage virtual assets to support virtualization of any incomplete/unavailable code, service, database, etc.
- Basic knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities to be able to adopt a standard test data tool set.
- May begin to support source code management looking for opportunities to effectively leverage tools and engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, SV, monitoring tools and process, etc.).
- Contribute early to the design and development process to ensure built-in-quality code.
- Implement test scripts ensuring they are integrated into the continuous integration, delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipeline for functional and non-functional automation.
- Responsible and/or accountable for documenting and supporting the proactive identification of end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities.
- Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate appropriate user stories, acceptance criteria and definitions of done/ready.
- Apply the principles of Behavior/Test-Driven Development (BDD/TDD) and focus on value driven outcomes.
- Provide feedback, reporting and analytics on overall quality/performance, user experience, and future bug prevention.
Shareholder
- Contribute to various operational activities and prescribed engineering processes.
- Be knowledgeable of quality engineering practices and procedures within own area of responsibility and keep abreast of emerging trends for own functional area.
- Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high-risk activities as necessary.
- Conduct internal and external research projects; support the development/delivery of presentations/communications to management or broader audience.
Employee/Team
- Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork.
- Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge/expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
- Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality.
- Keep current on emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
- Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
- Keep others informed and up to date about the status/progress of projects and/or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities.
- Contribute to the success of the team by willingly assisting others in the completion and performance of work activities; provide training, coaching and/or guidance as appropriate.
- Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
- Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.
Breadth & Depth
- Experienced working professional role providing specialized testing planning, design, automation and execution services.
- Solid debugging and problem-solving skills – solving moderately complex problems.
- Supports the introduction and adherence to new/advanced techniques and approaches in testing and automation (e.g., BDD, Rapid Software Testing).
- Foundational experience in software configuration and code management.
- Intermediate expertise in build/code/release management to enable defect avoidance.
- Solid business and technology acumen, works with other stakeholders to identify opportunities to benefit the Client and/or introduce operational improvements.
- Ability to drive work efforts related to moderately complex applications/systems/projects within one product line/business.
- Ability to work independently and with minimal guidance and direction.
- Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork, and service to the business.
- Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking.
- Collaborative team player.
- Future focused – foresees issues and gaps and identifies industry trends.
Skills and Experience Required:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in a lead capacity.
- Background of the Financial Services Industry. Knowledge on Commercial Lending Business, retail banking, Treasury Management, and Credit Adjudication.
- Strong experience working in Java and JSON. Ability to write code/functions for complex scenarios, integration points and supporting multiple technologies (legacy and digital).
- Ability to perform or lead test strategy development and delivery for less-complex projects.
- Talent and strength in writing scripts and scenarios, (as per methodology).
- Readiness to participate in testing processes, strategies, plans, methodologies.
- Ability to guide project managers and testing coordinators, manage defect management and resolution process, act as primary contact on testing projects, if required.
- Adeptness at testing risks and coordinating test environment.
- Prior CRM/Integration implementation experience from Testing/QA standpoint.
- Working experience Dev-Ops, continuous Integration and Testing in CI/CD environment.
- Strong experience in understanding functional requirements, plan, design and execute end-to-end tests.
- Create & execute the integration and end-to-end test scenarios & cases.
- Strong experience in test automation development for full stack components using Parasoft SOATest, Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, TestNG, Business Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber.
- Excellent hands-on experience using tools like Jenkins, Mavin, Jira/JTMF, Bitbucket.
- Relational Database – SQL writing and understanding of queries, and statements.
- Experience with API testing.
Desired:
- Strong experience working with Splunk.
- Experience in Test strategy and planning.
- Test Leadership experience.
- Testing Salesforce applications and configurations.
- Mobile/Device testing experience Accessibility Testing.
- Automation Framework Development experience.
- Experience using Unix scripting and commands, XML, and Python.
- Data and File transfer testing for Batch Processing/Scheduling, FTP, IBM MQ/DistributedMQ.
- Proficiency in French or Spanish.
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