QA Engineer

Job Title : QA Engineer

Job Location : Omaha, NE or Greenwood Village, CO (100% Onsite - local only, no relocation)

# Positions : 1

Employment Type : FTE

Key Technology : Mainframe

Job Responsibilities :

• Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Work with Technical and Business groups to define the scope of testing required.
• Define and execute test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications.
• Lead and participate in test planning and quality review sessions.
• Able to write test cases / scripts which may include application, network, system, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Lead test projects with minimal supervision.
• Participate in daily calls as needed for coordination of efforts.
• Perform technical testing activities including planning, design, scripting, and execution, debugging and reporting.
• Create and execute automated and manual tests for large.
• Research new tools and testing.
• Perform post-test execution activities including error debugging, and internal and external communications.
• Assist with testing execution for all system components, including functional and integration testing, ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases, documenting test cases and generating reports; generating software quality related metrics.
• Work with multiple programs and systems on projects of high complexity.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and training to less experienced.
• Perform planning, organizing, monitoring, and oversight of all phases of testing.
• Work closely with project manager and others to ensure business testing requirements are being met.
• Lead preparation of business scenarios and required test scripts, including identification of needed master and transactional data to execute end-to-end testing.
• Facilitate test meetings and escalating issues / concerns to the project management team as needed.
• Monitor issues and defects for trends and provide metrics to the project management team.
• Responsible for the oversight of requirement traceability throughout all test phases.
• Participate in requirements and design walkthroughs to understand the testing needs and raise questions to clarify as needed.
• Manage risks associated with testing, taking preventative action when risks become unacceptable.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with respect to all testing matters.

Skills and Experience Required :

Required :

Desired : Experience testing on mainframe