Title: Software QA Engineer II
Location: Holtsville, NY
Work Schedule: hybrid 3 days a week onsite
Duration: 6 months

Overview:
Analyzes, develops, designs, and maintains test cases for the organization’s products and systems. Performs system integration of software and hardware to maintain through put and program consistency. Develops, validates, and tests structures and user documentation. Create, maintain and execute overall test plan and test strategy. This role will be a key part of a team helping to coordinate manual and automated testing needs for the project.

Description:

• Design, develop, and maintain manual & automated browser, mobile and API test scripts.
• Ensures proper execution of test procedures and automated test suites and scripts.
• Understand business requirements and come up with test strategy to do different types of required testing and requirement traceability.
• Work with both the Product Owner and development team to understand QA needs and develop QA Test Plan accordingly.
• Work with team members from QA, DevOps and Developers for implementation & deployment.
• Establishes strong working relationships with team members and cross functional teams. Cross BU collaboration and release planning.
• Follow established Agile process and QA best practices, process and guidelines for high quality releases.
• Execute various testing activities such as Acceptance, Regression, System, Functional, Integration and some level of Performance testing.
• Provides accurate problem identification, root cause analysis, ticket documentation and resolution.
• Identify dependencies and risks/concerns with testing activities or release schedule. Plan for end to end system testing cycles in physical lab.
• Work with team on CI/CD pipelines, automated build, test, deploy and support.
• Support trials of new infrastructure designs/services.
• Lead and manage QA related project tasks by working with Jr and Mid level QA to follow best practices and coding standards

Qualifications:

• Preferred Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Preferred Work Experience (years): 5+ years experience with manual and automated testing.

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Strong experience with either Playwright or Selenium
• Strong experience with either Java or Python
• Strong experience with either Junit or PyTest
• Experience with Devcontainers (Docker & Kubernetes)
• Experience with Kafka and MQTT
• Experience working with Windows and Linux.
• Must be a self-starter and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (GitHub Actions).
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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.