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Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview:
Pay Range: $35hr - $40hr
Requirement/Must Have:
We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Remote / Telecommute for our client in San Francisco, CA
Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview:
Pay Range: $35hr - $40hr
Requirement/Must Have:
- Strong experience in manual quality assurance and software testing.
- Experience validating business and technical requirements by collaborating with business analysts and stakeholders.
- Ability to identify ambiguities, gaps, and inconsistencies in requirements early in the SDLC.
- Experience planning, estimating, and prioritizing test activities for sprints and releases.
- Strong experience designing and executing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test cases.
- Experience tracking and managing defects using project management or defect tracking tools.
- Ability to actively participate in defect triage discussions and determine severity, priority, and resolution paths.
- Experience working closely with vendor teams and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to create comprehensive status reports for large testing initiatives.
- Strong understanding of QA process improvement and SDLC best practices.
- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
- Ability to conduct root cause analysis for production or UAT issues.
- Strong knowledge of organizational, regulatory, and security compliance standards in testing.
- Insurance domain experience required.
- Proven experience as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer or Senior Manual QA.
- Experience in manual testing across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
- Experience supporting large testing initiatives and release cycles.
- Experience mentoring junior QA engineers or onboarding new team members.
- Experience working in regulated environments preferred.
- Validate business and technical requirements by collaborating with business analysts to ask clarifying questions and identify ambiguities, gaps, or inconsistencies early.
- Ensure specifications align with user expectations and business needs.
- Plan, estimate, and prioritize test activities for upcoming sprints and releases.
- Design and execute comprehensive test cases covering functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
- Maintain current and complete test coverage across all required areas.
- Track and manage defects using project management tools.
- Participate in defect triage discussions to determine severity, priority, and resolution paths.
- Coordinate closely with vendor teams and internal stakeholders.
- Participate in project meetings and support the project QA lead in executing testing activities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying process gaps, recommending enhancements, and refining QA standards.
- Provide guidance, training, and mentorship to new team members and junior QA engineers.
- Create training videos, manuals, and wiki pages for knowledge sharing and onboarding.
- Create comprehensive status reports for large testing initiatives, including test execution status, key defects, and action items.
- Ensure compliance with organizational, regulatory, and security standards throughout testing activities.
- Support User Acceptance Testing by assisting testers, clarifying expected behaviors, and validating fixes or enhancements.
- Conduct root cause analysis for issues identified in production or UAT.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prevent issue recurrence and improve software quality.
- Experience working in the insurance domain.
- Experience creating QA documentation such as training materials, manuals, and wiki pages.
- Experience working with vendor-managed teams.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
- Manual Testing.
- Quality Assurance.
- Functional Testing.
- Regression Testing.
- Integration Testing.
- End-to-End Testing.
- Test Case Design.
- Defect Tracking.
- Defect Triage.
- UAT Support.
- Root Cause Analysis.
- SDLC.
- QA Process Improvement.
- Requirements Validation.
- Stakeholder Collaboration.
- Vendor Coordination.
- Compliance and Regulatory Testing.
- Test Planning.
- Test Estimation.
- Status Reporting.
- Mentoring and Training.
- Insurance Domain Knowledge.
- Relevant degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
- Equivalent professional experience in Quality Assurance may be considered.
Salary : $35 - $40