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QA Test Engineer Jobs in United States at Apex Systems
Title: QA Test Engineer
Company: Apex Systems
Location: United States
The Test Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of new API functionality as well as improvement of API functionality across internal and external applications. This includes Customer Data Quality testing, Performance testing, Regression testing etc. This is a hands-on testing position which requires deep knowledge and understanding of all aspects of developing and executing API testing as well as Back-end testing. The Test Engineer must be an advocate for all things Testing and Quality Assurance while driving and implementing best practices. The ideal candidate must possess technical knowledge, strong analytical, and critical thinking abilities. Manual API testing as well as Automated API testing skills are required
As a motivated and self-driven member of the Technology organization, the Quality Assurance Test Engineer will be responsible for assuring consistent, high quality testing standards are utilized on all products and systems within the Company’s portfolio. The Test Engineer will interface with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Developers, End Users and Scrum Masters to deliver products with high quality and on schedule.
Duties and responsibilities:
• Review technical documents, functional specifications, use cases, design, and architecture documents to create effective, value-add test plans.
• Identify issues in API and data, report and oversee issue resolution.
• Become an expert in business rules, system functionality and architecture.
• Plan and execute Manual and Regression API testing.
• Independently develop, modify, and execute test cases based on requirements and design documents.
• Contribute to and maintain project documentation.
• Provide concise and consistent status reporting.
• Identify, report and track defects.
• Collaborate with external teams on root cause analysis.
• Maintain close interaction with business and technical peers during the project life cycle.
• Ensuring proper traceability from requirements to test artifacts.
• Actively participate in requirements and code reviews.
• Actively participate and drive improvements in Agile Scrum delivery.
• Be a thought leader in the test design and execution arena (manual and automated).
• Identify process bottlenecks and suggest improvement actions.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and testing approaches.
• Creation and input of test data, either manually or by using tools, programs, or masked production data to execute test cases.
Position Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area.
• Hands-on experience in API test execution.
• Experience in Regression Test Strategies, Regression suite maintenance and execution.
• Hands-on experience with ReadyAPI, Postman, SoupUI.
• Hands-on experience using SQL queries for results validation and data mining.
• At least 3-5 years of professional experience on a variety of projects.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, ALM, TFS/ADO or similar systems of record.
• Understanding of Development and Test cycles, including respective best practices.
• Hands-on experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues, identifying root causes and support development team in development of resolutions.
• Experience in Automation testing is a strong plus.
• Strong communication and Client/Business interfacing and interpersonal skills are a must.
• Experience developing and maintaining a C# Test automation framework.
• Experience developing and maintaining a Selenium test framework that integrates with C#.
