Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in Grey Eagle, MN

Position Title

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Salary Range

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Grade 10, exempt, $76,020.39 - $106,428.53 per fiscal year, commensurate with experience.

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, Grade 12, exempt, $87,035.75 - $121,850.05 per fiscal year, commensurate with experience.

Job Description Summary

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you are responsible for the development, and execution of IT quality assurance processes and testing to ensure the quality of our software applications and systems.

OR; As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, you are responsible for leading the design, development, and execution of IT quality assurance processes and testing to ensure the quality of our software applications and systems.

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Project lifecycle testing and delivery
• Develop and execute test strategies and test plans for medium or large projects, agile teams, and production releases across a portfolio of applications.
• Document effort estimation, resource planning, and risk management.
• Responsible for the successful execution of functional, performance, and regression testing, including manual and automated testing, with additional focus on integration and application security testing as needed.
• Guide development teams and business stakeholders to ensure that software applications and systems are designed and developed with quality in mind.
• Participate in software design and requirements reviews to ensure that quality requirements are properly defined and documented.
• Modify and execute automated test cases and review and diagnose failures.
• Document and triage defects.
• Collaborate with product owners and customers to ensure requirements are met and determine release readiness.
• Evaluate system performance and suggest improvements.
• Ensure the successful deployment of applications into the production environment.
• Mentors less experienced quality assurance engineers.
• Documentation and communication
• Maintain quality assurance process and testing documentation..
• Establish and track metrics to measure the effectiveness of the software testing and quality assurance processes throughout the product lifecycle.
• Continuous improvement
• Provide input on quality assurance process improvement opportunities to optimize time and efficiency of quality assurance activities.
• Stays informed and educated on changing technologies, frameworks, and quality assurance best practices.
• Maintain quality assurance software tool standards to manage automated test cases.
• Participate in releases and support as necessary, including outside of traditional work hours.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field AND a minimum of four years’ software testing experience. (i.e. test case creation, test approach and strategy, automated and manual test execution, test reporting, defect management) OR
• A combination of IT related post-secondary and/or professional education and demonstrated relevant work experience in software testing (i.e. test case creation, test approach and strategy, automated and manual test execution, test reporting, defect management) equivalent to a total of eight years.
• Four years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile, waterfall, etc.
• Two years’ experience with some of the following project management/development team tools: Azure DevOps, Smartsheets, and JIRA.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Strong business process/operational knowledge (e.g., customer service, inventory management, procurement, accounting)
  
  

In addition to the above, the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer minimum qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in information technology or related field AND a minimum of ten years of software testing experience. (i.e. test case creation, test approach and strategy, automated and manual test execution, test reporting, defect management)
• A combination of IT related post-secondary and/or professional education and demonstrated relevant work experience in software testing (i.e. test case creation, test approach and strategy, automated and manual test execution, test reporting, defect management) equivalent to a total of fourteen years.
• Ten years’ experience with various software development approaches: agile, waterfall, etc.
• Five years’ experience with some of the following project management/development team tools: Azure DevOps, Smartsheets, and JIRA.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field and eight years’ experience in quality assurance.
• Six years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile, waterfall, etc.
• Four years’ experience with some of the following project management/development team tools: Azure DevOps, Smartsheets, and JIRA.
• Two years’ experience in quality assurance automation.
• Experience testing Salesforce and Workday integrations.
  
  

In addition to the above, the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer preferred qualifications include:

• Master’s Degree in information technology or related field and fourteen years’ experience in quality assurance.
• Twelve years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile and waterfall.
• Seven years’ experience with some of the following project management/development team tools: Azure DevOps, Smartsheets, and JIRA.
• Five years’ experience in quality assurance automation.
  
  

Position open until filled.

First review of applications will take place September 6th. If interested, please submit your application prior to this date to be considered.

Location:

• This is a remote position, and is subject to Sourcewell's telecommuting policies and procedures.
• On occasion, may be asked to travel to Staples, MN for meetings, professional development or team activities. Potentially twice per year. Notice will be given ahead of time.
• Sourcewell is currently accepting applications from all states, except the following: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Applicants living in or planning to relocate to a state not on this list are encouraged to apply. *
  
  

Sourcewell exists to empower community success. We stand with our partners in government and education striving to recognize and honor the differences in each of our community members. We are committed to removing barriers to equity.

Values

• Seek. Be curious.
• Empower. Be accountable and liberate others.
• Impact. Be a difference maker
  
  

Full Time/Part Time

Full time

Position Type

Regular

Scheduled Hours

40