Principal Quality AnalystEngineer CR268

Job Title: Principal Quality Analyst/Engineer

Location: PleasantonCA

Duration: Long Term

Project Introduction/Background:

Clients Information Technology Quality Engineering Unit provides an opportunity to solve business critical and challenging problems using digital transformation automation and technological innovations in building great products and applications with high quality scalability and reliability. The State Funds digital tansformation and innovation requires efficient Quality Engineering test methodologiies and continuous test automation solutions for various applicationsundertest (AUT) in support of agile and waterfall release delivery. Collabrate with test automation team in automating regression test suites acceptance test suites critical functional test suites for improving quality and efficiency. The State Funds Quality Engineering best practices are evolving to the next level by exploring script less automations AIBased QA Bot rollouts new tools evaluations in delivering various SDLC / DevSecOps initiatives with high standards and operational excellence.

Deliverables & Tasks:

Principal Quality Analyst/Engineer perform exploratory functional regression and end to end integration testing root cause analysis and provide concise project status reports with risks and mitigation plan towards quality delivery.

Participate crossfunctionally in agile and/or waterfall SDLC phases including business requirements analysis and requirementsbased test planning sprint planning test design and execution.

Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for an efficient QE deliverables and provide technical/tactical expertise to solve any challenges and improve overall quality.

Become an application SME and provide QE efforts estimation optimize test design/ test execution RCA defects triage prioritize and drive resolution of defects.

Review and provide constructive feedback on BRDs TDDs and/or agile project documents develop test strategy and QE capacity / test plans and update project / defect tracking tools like JIRA Confluence etc. and provide QE testing status with success metrics/KPIs.

Constantly look for opportunities to improve testing methodologies test coverage and efficiency of both manual and automation tests with high standards.

Required Time Allocation:

70% Functional test project execution Participate in Agile/Waterfall SDLC Coordinate with Module Leads in Design Development Execution of Test Scenarios and Test cases.

10% Support in building Test Strategy Test Plan QE Handbook Release Notes and maintain Jira Dashboard.

10% Peer review test design test execution RCA and overall standards of QE deliverables.

10% Close coordination with multiple IT & business stakeholder Functional guidance for automation team connecting dots and ROI assessments.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Masters or Bachelors Degree with 8 years of Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or Quality Engineering (QE) experience in delivering quality products or software applications.

Handson web/cloud/mobile based applications testing skills expertise in conducting E2E testing for large scale and complex applications with micro services / APIs.

Prior work experience in Insurance Industry and having good knowledge on workers compensation insurance is a plus.

Well versed with SDLC Waterfall and Agile methodologies Requirements analysis Test Strategy Test design Test optimization QE Deliverables Roadmap test plan and test results.

Expertise in JIRA Confluence and other test/defect management tools.

Good knowledge of Java Linux Windows and debugging / technical troubleshooting skills.

Excellent communication presentation documentation and interpersonal skills.

Demonstrated skills in decision making and problem solving.

Demonstrated ability in coaching/developing and mentoring QE team members.

Track record of good time management prioritizing projects and estimating work.

Experience with Mobile Testing via Manual or Automation (Appium & Android SDK) including any of integration solutions such as Browserstack is a plus.

Proficient with SQL for adding modifying and extracting data from a RDBMS database including NoSQL or JSON formatted DBs.

Good to have TestNg/Junit Maven/Ant also Jenkins inclusive of Shell Scripting understanding for CI/CD/CT integrations with DevOps / DevSecOps.

Understanding Data Driven Keyword Driven Hybrid ATDD frameworks inclusive of BDD & TDD techniques and POM based approach.

Working knowledge with version control tools (TFS GIT or SVN) is a plus.

Working knowledge of AI Machine Learning techniques and framework such as (CNTK etc.)