Job Title: QA Engineer
Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid (2/3 days onsite per week)
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The individual will design, create, test, and deploy test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains. Candidate must demonstrate strong logical and creative problem-solving abilities, good oral and written communication, and excellent analytical skills.
 
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing, writing, and executing automated test scripts using Java & Selenium WebDriver for UI Automation plus REST Assured and Cucumber BDD for API Automation.
• Maintaining and enhancing existing automated test scripts and frameworks to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Contributing to the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes by integrating automated tests into build pipelines such as Jenkins.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and best practices in test automation and applying them to improve test development & execution processes.
• Developing Quality Management plans and test strategy for each sprint/release, review test plans and conduct peer reviews of plans & test cases.
• Working with Product owners to ensure business requirements are adequate & ensure test cases are developed according to standards for both manual and automated.
• Update Quality Tools with requirement traceability, test cases, test sets and defects according to QA standards & report status on the QA review report.
• Hands on test creation and execution of user stories (Smoke, Functional Integration, Regression testing) and logging defects.
• Engage Development Team in defect resolution & Lead defect review calls.
• Assisting Testing with other groups for Non-functional QA phases (Performance, Security, Accessibility).
• Provide guidance around QA strategies, proactive governance, and risk management for overall quality delivery of platform applications. Working collaboratively across scrums teams and testing team for our partner BUs to ensure success by applying best practice principals, and techniques.

 
Education and Experience:

• B S. /B.A. or M.A. /M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 4+ years overall experience for the execution and control of all aspects of testing.
• Expertise in Web based and Mobile testing, knowledge of J2EE applications testing.
• Experience with testing RESTful micro-services architecture on the cloud.
• Understanding of event driven approach and testing the functions by posting messages to AWS SQS queues.
• Understanding of cloud database, NoSQL concepts (DocumentDB, Aurora) including caching (ElastiCache) and SQL for RDBMS Technical

 
Required Qualifications:

• Good working knowledge of test automation processes, concepts, and tools such as Java, Cucumber, Selenium, TestNG, JMeter, Postman, SoapUI.
• Well versed with back-end automation testing.
• Experience with multiple development methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid) & different tools (JIRA, Confluence, MIRO).
• Experience with Rest API automation is a MUST.
• Experience with Unix and scripting.
• Experience with developing and executing fast test scripts that are easily reusable and maintainable.
• Experience with Jenkins and integrating into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with ETL (e.g. DataStage, Informatica) data sourcing, transformation and validation.
• Working knowledge of build tools such as ANT & MAVEN.
• Experience working with IDE tools such as Eclipse and IntelliJ

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge with the following AWS and technologies (e.g., Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Mongo, ECS, Aurora Glue, Athena, Parquet file format)
• Experience within Financial Services or Insurance industries

 

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
 
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $55.00/hr.