Description
SUMMARY
The Sr Software Quality Engineer is a hands-on daily contributor who performs complex testing tasks requiring planning, scheduling, and testing to assure that developed products meet design specifications and are within total quality management limits and standards. They will communicate with product, developers and technical support specialists on product issues; operate under general supervision and report to the Software Quality Engineering Manager. This position requires five to eight years of experience in software quality engineering and a solid automation background.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Guides the planning, creation and execution of automated tests using a test automation tool including, but not limited to, RestAssured & Selenium. Understands the concepts behind and when to do automation.
• Has demonstrated lead capabilities: lead a team successfully, worked well with other departments – Dev/PM/PdM, etc. Contributes to the development of other team members. Has demonstrated planning and resource scheduling skills.



Facilitates troubleshooting and solves problems.
• Understands API/Web Services testing and understanding when to write test harnesses using web services technologies and is able to disseminate this information to team members.
• Leads, plans, schedules and implements testing for projects, defines test objectives, writes scripts (manual and automated). Formulates test plans including systems analysis, risk analysis, dependency analysis, writing and plotting test strategies, and determines how to report defects (pre/post- production).
• Executes manual and automated test cases, as well as performs back end data validation.
• Tracks test progress and results in test management tools like Jira, Greenhopper, Stash, Perforce and Testlink.
• Identifies opportunities, then leads the roll out of inventive tech ideas and implements solutions with other projects teams, the SQE department, as well as other departments.
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📌 Quality Assurance Engineer III (Chennai)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Chennai