Quality Assurance Engineer I, Relay TAQ

Do you thrive on solving complex problems? Do you enjoy diving under the surface to uncover how massively scalable systems with multiple dependencies work? If you are seeking a fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation and apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world challenges, this is your opportunity! We are creating a world class Center of Excellence and we need world class QAEs to deliver on this vision. As a QA Engineer, you will provide both coding and testing expertise for our team, as well as be a constant advocate for our customers. Our preferred candidate possesses a high level of OO coding experience, combined with a demonstrated passion for software quality. As a QAE, you will work closely with product and engineering teams to create test strategies and drive initiatives that ultimately ensure our customers get what they want, when they want. You’ll understand the big picture of how our features and products interact as you navigate through complex designs and code. You will work with software development engineers to ensure soundness of design, testability of their code, and determine the best testing and automation approaches. You will contribute to automation frameworks and automate test cases both at the API and UI levels, using Java and other languages. You’ll be responsible for driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Demonstrated track record of delivering test automation, quality requirements, designing functional and performance test suites and producing deliverables that exceed commitments.
• Responsible for creating test automation solutions, discovering current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selecting new concepts and methodology, and developing major routines and utilities.
• Generation of metrics and information that improve development practices on the team.
• Review and critique of technical requirements and software design specifications and software implementation.
• Instilling best practices for test suite automation and frameworks and documentation, ensuring designs meet requirements, and delivering high-quality software on tight schedules.
• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
• Writing and executing test plans, designing and developing test tools, automation, debugging and reporting code bugs and pushing quality upstream.
• Own the delivery of an entire software development test suites and frameworks.
• Work closely with the technical leaders to develop the best approach for testing our functionality at scale. You are capable of understanding the interaction between the components in a distributed system to ensure they are functioning properly.
• Create and execute appropriate test strategies and processes that align with business objectives and project timelines.

About the team

Relay TAQ’s diverse team of SDETs, QA Engineers, and Device Associates provides comprehensive testing support for customer‑facing Relay products, including Carrier Products, Relay Mobile, and Relay Yard Automation, while also driving end‑to‑end testing between Relay Products.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
• Experience in automation testing
• Experience in manual testing
• Experience in UI and API automation testing (Selenium/SOAPUI)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in API & Mobile testing
• Experience designing and planning test conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control

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