Senior QA Engineer
DMA - DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Fort Wayne • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsJMeterSDLCSelenium
About the role
- Lead quality assurance efforts across DMA’s software solutions
- Design and execute manual and automated testing strategies
- Mentor junior QA staff
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure that software releases meet defined quality standards
- Support agile development practices
- Create, execute, and maintain test plans, strategies, cases, data, and scripts for manual and automated testing
- Perform functional, non-functional, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Lead risk analysis and contribute to release planning and sprint QA tasks
- Mentor QA team members on domain knowledge, technical skills, and best practices
- Drive improvements in automation frameworks for flexibility, performance, and maintainability
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of QA documentation
- Monitor and report defects and enhancements using Jira or similar tools
- Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to ensure quality standards are met
- Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes and methodologies
- Document and report defects and enhancements
- Establish realistic estimates for tasks
- Mentor and provide guidance to team members
- Diagnose and triage software issues; determine and document root causes
- Support the generation and accuracy of QA documentation and reporting
- Participate in code reviews
- Support performance and application security testing initiatives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum of 4+ years QA or programming experience, with emphasis on testing web-based applications
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, TestNG, or JMeter highly preferred
- Expert familiarity with Agile , SCRUM , and the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Experience with GitLab and Chrome
- Basic understanding of relational databases, object-relational mapping, and distributed systems
- Basic understanding of web development and related technologies
- Experience with performance and security testing
- Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Experience with financial or business process applications is a plus
- Excellent time management and organizational abilities
- Strong listening skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
Benefits
- Employee stock ownership program eligibility begins on day one of employment (ESOP contribution is targeted at 6% of your annual compensation)
- Company paid parental leave
- Generous time off package
- Multiple benefit plans, eligibility begins on day one of employment
- Culturally focused on work/life balance, mental health, and the overall wellness of our employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
manual testingautomated testingtest plansfunctional testingnon-functional testingregression testinguser acceptance testingrisk analysisperformance testingsecurity testing
Soft skills
mentoringcontinuous improvementattention to detailanalytical thinkingverbal communicationwritten communicationteam collaborationtime managementorganizational abilitieslistening skills