Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Marathon Petroleum CorporationAbout the role
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Position Summary
At MPC, we are embarking on a transformative journey where you will play a pivotal role in developing our Commercial IT DevSecOps culture and capabilities, investing in building and developing quality as a discipline, and ensuring we’re providing secure, high-quality solutions to our business partners.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to establish and lead the Quality Assurance (QA) practice for our Commercial IT organization, ensuring alignment with industry standards and best practices. This role requires a strategic leader with exceptional collaboration and communication skills to drive quality across complex product portfolio and cross-functional initiatives. You will shape the QA roadmap, champion automation and DevSecOps practices, and ensure the delivery of high-performing, secure, and reliable systems that meet stringent industry standards. As a key influencer, you’ll foster a culture of continuous improvement, mentor teams, and drive innovation in testing methodologies. This role offers opportunities for career growth, including exposure to cutting-edge technologies, leadership in enterprise-wide initiatives, and professional development through certifications and training.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads cross functional teams to test the functionality and quality through automated and manual testing for highly complex features. Leads cross functional teams as a quality champion and empower Software Engineers to create highly performant and secure systems.
- Leads medium complexity efforts with the functionality and quality through automated and manual testing. Leads small teams as a quality champion and empowers Software Engineers to create highly performant and secure systems.
- Typically executes a defined quality assurance roadmap, contributing to the organization's engineering and technology strategy.
- Leads small to medium size initiatives for all quality assurance (QA) aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating with all involved teams including development, QA, and other release management teams. Provides direction of testing scope and develop testing strategy. Monitors and measure requirements, outputs and metrics for testing. Creates and updates test summary artifacts. Develops, maintains, and executes automation of test scripts. Writes and executes automated checks, and identifies, analyzes, and reports bugs. Works with IT Product Owner to understand acceptance criteria and support and gathers feedback from user acceptance testing.
- Supports the alignment of Agile practices for testing scope and development of testing strategy. Supports, monitors and measures requirements, outputs, and metrics for testing that are aligned with anticipated lead and cycle times.
- Works with users to translate designs and solution architecture into design specifications. Leads small to medium teams to assess and track the quality of technical specifications and ensures that they are in line with stakeholder expectations and to review test cases for detail and accuracy.
- Ensures proper documentation of software test results and works with stakeholders to design and implement corrective actions.
- Plans and implements testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality. Identifies opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests. Defines and champions quality and testing best practices among development teams. Supports DevSecOps transformation by enabling Software Engineers to expand on Automation testing within the Agile life cycle. Utilizes centralized reporting for all defects/incidents using standard tools that may generate defects and diminish quality of delivery.
- Design and develop custom test harnesses and automation frameworks in C#, supporting both UI and backend systems.
- Create and execute automated tests using Selenium WebDriver for UI, and tools like Postman or REST Assured for APIs.
- Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), enabling fast feedback and continuous validation.
- Validate and monitor non-functional requirements, including:
- Performance & Load Testing
- Security Testing (basic vulnerability check, integration with DevSecOps tools)
- Accessibility & Sustainability
- Compliance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPPA, or internal policies)
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, r
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