Senior Quality Assurance

A Senior QA reports to a QA Lead. Works closely with QA lead, QA Subject Matter Experts, other QA members, project managers, designers, and developers to ensure QA standards and client satisfaction are delivered thought-out the account. A Senior QA brings analytical thinking and support to the team, and QA leads many tasks.

**You Will**:

- Analyze, test, document and recommend Automation tools for different projects
- Guide, coach and teach other team members regarding the Automation process
- Evaluate improvements to update current Automation framework
- Is responsible for performing any of the QA tasks with barely any guidance
- Plans, conducts and technically directs projects or major phases of significant projects
- Responsible for analyzing and understand requirements, and design specifications to ensure a quality process
- Responsible to attend, leading, and organizing meetings on behalf of the team
- Responsible for promoting and evaluating QA values and principles for the QA, everyone in the company, and our clients.
- Support QA lead to work and motivate other team members in a team-oriented and collaborative environment with technical and non-technical team members.
- Responsible for communicating test results, issues, and risks to project team members, project managers, and QA management through the different channels
- Responsible for promoting effective communication, participation, and involvement amongst QA members.
- Responsible for test data identification
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive test plans
- Writing and maintaining test cases/scripts following high-quality standards
- Create traceability matrix documents based on project requirements
- Create checklist documentation based on project requirements
- Performing functional and non-functional testing
- Effectively communicating statuses
- Develop test design documents to cover requirements
- Plan and schedule test activities to ensure quality
- Create defect tickets and track issues to resolution and risk analysis of said issues
- Report creation and related metrics at different levels
- Overseeing, delegating, and coordinating work with other QA Associates and apprentices.
- Development of junior staff members
- Creating and executing regression tests based on design specifications and requirements
- Conducting research into new technologies, including tools, components, and frameworks related to QA
- Support QA Lead in QA estimations.
- Responsible for identifying with the QA lead areas where automation tools can be applied for the benefit of the project
- Identify and raise risks
- Supports the QA lead on onboarding, coaching, and mentoring activities.

**You Have**:

- Advanced English Proficiency (B2 + reading, writing, and conversation).
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering.
- 4+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance - Automation.
- 1+ years of experience in Agile Methodologies for software development.
- 3+ years of experience working with local and offshore teams.
- Knowledge and experience automating with Selenium, Cucumber, Ruby, Cypress, and Javascript.
- Capable of building proof-of-concept prototypes
- Working experience with CI/CD (Jenkins)
- Proficient skills in programming in Java, Javascript, and Python.
- Knowledge and experience in Object-oriented programming (OOP).
- Knowledge and experience in Page Object Model.
- Experience working on Git (Bitbucket).
- Desirable knowledge of collaboration and issue-tracking tools such as Box, Jira, and Confluence.
- ISTQB Certification is a plus.
- The Talent Team at Critical Mass focuses on providing the best training, mentorship, and employee experience possible CM new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. To do so, we expect our team to work from an office at least three days a week. The ask stems from our want to:_
- _Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning._
- _Improve collaboration and team relationships._
- _Increase employee engagement_
- We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly._