[Hiring] Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer @NMDP

Role Description

This position is responsible for designing and delivering successful Automation Testing as part of the NMDP Information Technology Quality Assurance team. Responsibilities include:

• Planning, designing, and developing an Automation Framework for facilitating manual regression tests from development into the framework.
• Mentoring project teams on automation and performance testing.
• Providing work direction and execution of Automation test activities.
• Providing related reporting.
• Interacting directly with IT and customers while performing duties and communicating known risks or compliance issues discovered within software.

Qualifications

• Quality assurance principles and best practices (integration, system, regression, performance, and user acceptance).
• Object-oriented design with programming skills in modern object-oriented languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Python or other.
• Code versioning tools such as GitLab and GitHub.
• Setting up and working in automation build tools e.g., GitLab, Maven, Kubernetes (K8).
• CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Drone.
• Agile software development tools for test management e.g., JIRA, ALM.
• Testing tools & frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit or similar.

Requirements

• Experience designing and developing test strategies, test plans, and conducting quality reviews, and implementing quality standards, tracking defects, and resolving system/environment issues.
• Experience leading QA teams on projects, monitoring team member performance on assigned tasks, identifying and escalating project risks, and consolidating and reporting project status on team member activity.
• Experience implementing a Quality Management System as measured by ISO25010 standards and working with ISO9001 standards for delivering effective/efficient client engagements.
• Experience working in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, life sciences) and applying validation practices aligned with GxP or FDA regulatory requirements.
• Experience utilizing test automation and performance testing with an understanding for the appropriateness of automation in framing a TQM solution.
• Experience with measuring Quality Assurance effectiveness and creating enterprise metrics to give status and proactively identify/mitigate risks.
• Experience building and fostering an environment for Quality Assurance to succeed within the team and within areas outside the team.
• Work with cross-functional/matrixed teams to deliver quality at the highest level.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to converse with executive management as needed.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
• Accident/critical illness/hospital benefits.
• Well-being, legal, identity theft, and pet benefits.
• Retirement plans.
• Paid time off/holidays.
• Leave and incentive plans for eligible employees.