What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software QA Engineer position at Neptune?
Position Summary
Neptune’s Enterprise Applications & Data (EAD) team is looking for a Software QA Engineer to help define and drive quality assurance processes within Neptune’s enterprise applications, ensuring that products meet the required standards before release.
Objectives:
- Lead testing efforts for Neptune’s enterprise applications involving front-end, back-end and integration point validations
- Participate in all Scrum Ceremonies: i.e., Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Estimation, and Retrospective meetings to review project progress and act accordingly
- Provide reliable scope and estimates of testing efforts to the project team
- Work across multi-functional teams and business units to understand both the business needs and technical approach for a given project
- Create and review test cases to ensure the testing scope encompasses all requirements for the project
- Identify test data needed for all required test scenarios
- Track and monitor all testing activities for the scrum team
- Engage in all forms of testing needed by the project (i.e., functional, integration, regression, end to end)
- Lead and mentor QA team members
- Remain involved in test environment setup and gaining access to required tools through coordinating with proper teams
- Work closely with Tech Leads and Product Owners to troubleshoot defects both in production and lower environments
- Provide technical expertise in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solutions or escalation to product owners
Requirements:
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
- Experience
- 6 years of testing experience (functional, integration, regression, performance, and scalability testing) for enterprise applications
- Experience in onshore/offshore scrum team model
- Experience leading QA members in test plan development through test execution/defect resolution
- Experience in testing environments with integrated systems
- Experience ensuring accuracy and reliability of datasets across multiple platforms
- Strong understanding of End-to-End testing and how data flows within applications
- Interpersonal Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, and strong team-building skills
- Pragmatic problem solving and decision-making skills with excellent written and verbal communications
- Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Relentless passion and commitment to operational excellence – delivering in scope, on time, on the budget to the delight of our internal customer
- Demonstrated ability to back decisions with research and the “why”
- Experience working in a diverse team and accomplishing goals with cross-team collaboration
- Project and management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Technical Skills
- 6 years SDLC in an Agile/SCRUM environment
- In-depth knowledge of software testing principles, methodologies, and automated testing
- Strong proficiency in SQL for data analysis and validation
- Experience with SSIS/ETL processes for system integration testing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
- Experience with SAP ERP system
- Experience with integration platforms like BOOMI
- Experience with automation around data validation
Location: Tallassee, AL or Duluth, GA
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