Senior Software Quality Engineer – Design Assurance
Stryker
Quality Assurance Engineer
Plante Moran
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois, Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $8,041 - $12,083 per month
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AzureSDLCSQL
About the role
- Define and lead QA processes and standards across projects.
- Interpret complex business and functional requirements to develop detailed test plans, comprehensive test cases, leveraging deep understanding of the application’s functionality.
- Ensure alignment of QA efforts with business and detailed requirements.
- Design, create, and execute manual and automated test cases.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, data, and security testing.
- Ensure test coverage and traceability to requirements.
- Track and report on software quality metrics
- Analyze test results and provide actionable feedback to development teams.
- Maintain documentation for test plans, test cases, and test results.
- Work closely with project managers, developers, business analysts, and other QA engineers.
- Influence cross-team decisions and share best practices.
- Communicate QA status, risks, and issues to stakeholders.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and promote best practices.
- Advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Identify opportunities to improve testability and QA processes.
- Stay updated with industry trends and emerging tools.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer specifically in custom development solutions
- 2+ years of experience in automated testing and automated testing tools
- Strong understanding of SDLC and QA methodologies
- Demonstrated understanding of availability and performance testing
- Working knowledge of SQL queries with the ability to define and execute SQL queries to enhance the data validation processes
- Experience working with Azure Dev Ops or similar tool
- Experience working with GitHub for collaboration and issue tracking
- Knowledge of QA methodology and industry-standard testing and bug tracking tools
- Experience with one scripting language
- Experience driving quality through process, instrumentation, requirements, and testing
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- 401(k) plan
- Business-related travel expense reimbursement
- Lodging and meal reimbursement for business-related use
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
automated testingmanual testingfunctional testingregression testingintegration testingdata testingsecurity testingSQLscripting languageQA methodologies
Soft skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationinfluencinganalytical thinkingproblem-solvingattention to detailleadershipfeedbackadvocacy for quality
