Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

Opentext - The Information Company

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.

The Opportunity

The Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer is proficient in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies and will be primarily responsible for coordinating all testing activities, automation and manual test management, requirements and technical specifications reviews, analysis on functionality and creation of test plans and test scenarios. The Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer will triage test issues while collaborating with other departments during the investigation, reproduction, and closure of defects.

Experience

• Knowledge of test strategy, planning, execution, and analysis (Must)
• Testing including planning, test execution, scripting, and analysis (Must)
• Experienced with integration and automation testing planning, coordination, and execution (Must)
• Proficiency in developing stable and maintainable automation frameworks and test data management systems in a shared environment.
• Expertise in ALM (Must) settings and techniques, bug triaging, source control, test case design and release management.
• IT: min 5 years (Required)

What You Are Great At

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Work closely with IT development, business leads, vendors, and product owners to understand full scope of features and pair with developers to advise and build test scripts (functional, integration, end-to-end, regressions, etc.) ensuring code coverage and quality.
• Participate in meetings, walkthrough, and presentations of new features as well as changes to existing functionality.
• Ensure that newly implemented system features, or enhancements meet user needs.
• Perform data validation, functionality, and deployment process verification.
• Conduct all types of testing for third party software and internally developed applications (e.g., black box, functional, regression, integrations, load, stress, performance)
• Overseeing the administration of all tests, identifying correct test cycles, and focus on test automation.

• Test cycles from business partners with no access to ALM
• Hands on JIRA and ALM:
• Ensuring all major defects are closed and sign off is provided.
• Reporting on open/closed defects
• Defining correct permissions and group membership for each project member in ALM (based on their role, e.g., PM, tester, authors, test leads)
• Cleanup and closing project in Jira/ ALM following project closure.
• Test cycles preparation, execution, and maintenance
• Closure
• Defect management:
• Defect triaging
• Ensuring the right priority is assigned to defects.
• Setting up test lab & plan, both manual and automation

What It Takes To Excel

• Knowledge of various Linux filesystems and network management.
• Strong computer skills and comfort level with technology and software release management
• Must be a team player, well organized and efficient with excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Automation exposure and experience is a must.
• Strong foundation in systems testing and software QA best practices, methodologies and techniques encompassing the full build, test, and deploy cycle.
• Solid writing and communication skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• 5 years software testing; experience in both, waterfall, and agile methodologies
• 5+ years of strong knowledge of end-to-end test methodology (test strategy, test plan, SDLC, defect management and reporting metrics); risks management is desired.
• Experience with version control and build systems.
• Knowledge of API/REST testing, test frameworks, and tools such as Postman, Swagger, etc.
• A clear understanding of Agile/XP methodologies
• Experience with Web applications, Data, APIs, Front and Back-end testing
• Proficiency in Java or .NET-based test frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit/xUnit, Selenium, etc.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant experience (Required)

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