Senior Software Quality Engineer in Test

***We welcome USA based people to apply. This role is 100% work from home***

Hello,👋 nice to e-meet you. This is Justin; he's currently looking to add a curious, passionate Senior Software Quality Engineer in Test who will be critical in helping us develop fast and thorough test solutions to ensure customized web-based products and processes are defect-free and customer ready. Are you solutions-oriented? Do you enjoy digging into a website’s functionality to execute integration, functional, system, regression, and performance testing? You will get to be a part of the team that is working cross-functionally as they build and release cutting-edge HR Technology—interested in hearing more?

Apply today; we'd love to consider you for this team!

WE’RE HELPING ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE 🌎

Here at Perceptyx, our mission is simple: we help employees and their organizations thrive. How do we do that? By creating an ongoing conversation that results in data and insights critical to everyone’s success. We are passionate about helping organizations listen to and act on what matters most to their employees. As the Employee Experience (EX) experts, Perceptyx’s approach is unique. Our combination of technology, service, and expertise is second to none. We employ an incredible staff of diverse professionals with the experience, knowledge, and drive to move every employee listening program swiftly from vision to reality.

Areas of impact include:

• Develop automation and manual testing strategies including the entrance and exit criterion for testing to begin and end and eventually be pushed from staging to production.
• Assist junior team members in both technology testing standards and processes and adapting to the corporate culture.
  
• Develop both manual and automated test cases using open source or commercial automation tools supporting the following platforms: mobile, web, tablet, and API testing.
  
• Define the positive, negative, and boundary test cases for complex scenarios.

Additional activities include:

• Demonstrate a solid grasp of Agile techniques and ceremonies for both Kanban and SCRUM.
• Demonstrate an ability to test with application servers, web servers, load balancers, proxy servers, and databases in a complex distributed computing environment.
• Demonstrate an ability to test cloud based technologies such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Resolve technical issues and code quality problems by working with Development, DBAs, DevOps, Product Management, and Quality Assurance Teams.

• Document all steps for manual test cases and stores them in a test repository for use in smoke tests, regression tests, and sprint signoffs.
• Query the backend, middleware, or front-end system to determine the root cause of a system failure and report this appropriately in a service ticket.
• Successfully test systems configured with: Windows, Linux, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Publish/Subscribe middleware.

Requirements

WHAT YOU WILL BRING 💻 🧠

• 5-7 years of working experience with Software Testing, ideally at least 2 years in a Sr. level title.
• Bachelor’s Degree in the following related areas is a plus (Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering).
• Experience scripting with automation tools.
• Coding in any high-level language, Python is a plus.
• Familiar with both REST and SOAP calls and the related test tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, or Swagger.
• Familiar with software testing concepts: regression testing, negative testing, White Box v. Black Box, functional v. non-functional testing, smoke testing, and integration testing.
• Experience utilizing automation scripts and tools to support a CI & CD pipeline.
• Good knowledge of web-based manual and automated testing best practices.
• Solid web testing and automation skills, in-depth knowledge of automation tools such as Selenium, Pytest, and BDD (behavior driven development).
• Experience maintaining documentation on software test methodology and quality assurance practices.

Bonus points for experience in or familiarity with:

• Cypress (web testing tool)
• Experience with SQL and writing complex queries
• Experience with cloud based platforms, such as AWS and Snowflake

Essential traits include:

• Ability to thrive in a high transaction, evolving team environment.
• Excellent written English-language communication skills.
• Able to troubleshoot issues and identify the