
Senior QA Engineer – Manual, Automation
Gartner
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Irving • Connecticut • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $72,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop test plans, strategies and ensure the development & execution of test cases meet project goals and QA standards.
- Lead functional testing of new requirements and enhancements of applications.
- Maintenance of regression test suite and driving the test execution.
- Identify, track, and prioritize defects with right severities; work collaboratively with technical teams to resolve issues swiftly and effectively.
- Ensure the overall quality, reliability, and performance of products by managing the design, execution, and reporting of testing activities, including functional and non-functional testing like performance, DB and API testing.
- Ensure delivery against Quality Engineering department goals and objectives, meeting commitments.
- Provide clear and detailed status, including metrics, assess and mitigate risks to ensure timely delivery of excellent quality.
- Implement best practices, including a variety of different testing protocols, tools, and metrics.
- Drive innovation and integration of modern technologies into frameworks and activities in the software test architecture to increase the performance and efficiency of the Quality Engineering department.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in software testing (websites and/or mobile applications).
- Strong qualitative and quantitative critical thinking skills.
- 5+ years of experience in QA, handling all testing activities independently.
- Experience implementing and executing defined standards for manual and automated testing.
- Experience leading automation scripting and expertise in JavaScript.
- Experience with test automation tool such as Playwright.
- Experience in estimation, prioritization, and planning/coordination of QA activities in a Scrum environment.
- Proficiency optimizing test case management and defect management software and processes, including JIRA.
- Solid experience in SQL queries and database testing.
- Strong attention to details, end-user quality, and usability.
- Experience in developing/maintaining Test automation frameworks.
- Experience in integrating test suites with tools in the DevOps/CICD pipelines - GIT, Jenkins, etc.
- Hands on experience in JUnit, TestNG, JMeter, Cucumber, Appium, Postman is good to have.
- Hands on exposure to AI driven testing.
- Experience in Disaster Recovery (DR) testing.
- Hands on experience with cloud service platforms is a plus (Azure or AWS).
Benefits
- 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
- Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
- 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
- Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
- Parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Gartner Gives Charity Match.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software testingmanual testingautomated testingJavaScriptSQLtest automation frameworksfunctional testingnon-functional testingperformance testingAPI testing
Soft Skills
critical thinkingattention to detailcollaborationrisk assessmentcommunicationinnovationproblem-solvingplanningprioritizationmetrics assessment