Staff Software QA Engineer

Job Description Summary This role will be responsible for ensuring the DT Engineering software team releases only tested quality software to our customers. This role will involve working independently and contributing to the immediate team. This role will also lead quality assurance discussions and drive team efficiency through agile/scrum automated testing and DevOps methodologies. This role heavily uses the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) software suite often extending it using product APIs to meet business needs.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role you will:
Own large sized tasks or small projects and delivers QE artifacts. Manages deliverables and mentors junior team members.
Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining coding standards and processes to ensure quality code is produced.
Reuse existing code appropriately wherever possible; drives same behaviours across team while coaching other developers to improve their code quality.
Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams at the COE.
Determine testing best practices and principals and promotes them across the organization.
Work with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
Provide subject matter expertise in the quality engineering manages test plans and testing methodology for software projects.
Use test automation techniques (data driven pairwise mocking test hooks) that fit the problem space. Understands designing and coding for testability to produce quality code with the lowest cost.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or u201CSTEMu201D Majors (Science Technology Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.

Desired CharacteristicsTechnical Expertise:

Desired Skills:

Significant experience with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) Engineering Workflow Manager (EWM) Engineering Test Manager (ETM) and Engineering Requirements Manager (ERM). u00A0 Experience with Selenium Cypress Cucumber and/or Gherkin. u00A0 Experience using API from a test perspective. u00A0 Understanding of cybersecurity Aerospace (DO-178) CMMC and/or Export Control regulations. u00A0 Advanced Jenkins automation or other CI/CD experience. u00A0 2+ years of scrum/agile experience. u00A0 Advanced scripted programming experience.

Has extensive experience in test automation
Demonstrates experience and ability to write Java code for the purposes of testing solution code (e. g. white-box testing).
Has experience in testing web services
Has experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems
Has experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
Has experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure
Expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance functional and regression test cases.
Skilled at developing code for other developers to learn from.
Skilled in integrating project testing with continuous-integration process.

Business Acumen:
Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

Leadership:
Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
Influences through others; builds direct and behind the scenes support for ideas
Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
Shares knowledge power and credit establishing trust credibility and goodwill

Personal Attributes:
Able to work under minimal supervision
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Able to work well with global teams including time-zone flexibility
Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.

Note
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

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