QA Engineer III ATI (Contract Talent)

Who We Are

Robert Half is seeking a QA Engineer III ATI to develop and execute test plans and functional (Automated and Manual) use cases to ensure that products meet user needs and business requirements. Develops and maintains a testing strategy that includes design, execution, and documentation of test cases, defects tracking, and test coverage analysis. Identifies, recommends, and implements changes to enhance the overall effectiveness of system and overall solution testing strategies. Coordinates project resources including employees, contractors, remote testers at vendor location(s), in testing of various RH software and/or hardware solutions.  Partners with IT Verticals and Business teams regularly to achieve system verification and validation objectives. Provides technical guidance to IT Verticals and Business teams regarding quality processes, tools, and methodologies to establish an effective and efficient quality culture.  

What You'll Do

• Oversees all testing activities, including planning, designing, scripting, execution, and reporting.
• Manages multiple diverse testing processes simultaneously for complex projects, defines formal scope/approach. 
• Adapt and refine reporting metrics to suit particular, system/solution effort/audience.
• Coordinate the planning and estimation of the release work effort (functional and non-functional). 
• Effectively communicate estimates, assumptions, benefits, and risks to all levels of management and scrum team
• Collaborate with technical experts, business systems analyst and product owners to review epics to provide high level estimates for future releases.
• Collaborate with technical experts, dev leads, business systems analyst and product owners to review stories to provide estimates on the sprint and project level.
• Assign test case scripting and execution tasks for testing resources throughout the agile release for complex projects
• Continually track progress against project deadlines and modify task delegation as needed
• Identify specific skillsets needed for onboarding resources
• Provides input to QA manager for testing resource needs
• Regularly reviews testing processes and recommends new processes and workflows as necessary to improve product quality and efficiency
• Represents QS and provides clarification/additional information for issues logged at issue review meetings attended by Senior Leadership
• Draws on in-depth experience with system verification and validation testing to write and maintain detailed test cases/scripts that are aligned with user and business needs; provides helpful feedback to other quality staff to ensure excellence in testing.
• Reviews and consults with business systems analysts and product managers on requirements, functional specifications, and user information to understand end user requirements and business process context 
• Review with appropriate SMEs to validate understanding. Networks with other teams to ensure thorough input on system/solution needs
• Design/maintain test plans including cycles, cases/conditions, expected results and requirement mapping 
• Plans and leads data migration testing and implementation
• Utilizes the test management tool to group test cases into suites
• Finalizes and maintains the regression suite
• Identifies and prioritizes test cases for automation   
• Tests and accepts delivered automation scripts
• Determines how data must be manipulated/created to meet testing requirements, based on advanced knowledge of those requirements. Is accountable for ensuring excellent results. Provides expert direction to others on the quality team.                                                                       
• Execute and validate test cases/scripts and identify discrepancies of actuals versus expected
• Ensure best practices are followed by all test team members on project associated with testing process and documentation; provide constructive feedback as needed
• Plans and leads data migration testing strategy and implementation
• Writes and executes complex queries to perform data validation, including data extraction, conversion, and migration
• Aid team members regarding running the automated test scripts and interpreting results 
• Work with the automation team to remove any blockers to automation.
• Research and verify issues as required 
• Provide appropriate detail to document issue for development team and context regarding impact and priority 
• Review issue reporting progress and process to ensure timely reporting visibility
• Provides expert direction to other system testers
• Regularly reviews verification and validation procedures and makes neces