Software Test Engineer/ QA Engineer

Job Description

Level 3

Parametric believes that each employee makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications, but not limit the employee or the organization to just the work identified.
It is our expectation that every employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our services.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This position reports to the Manager of QA Engineering. As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for testing proprietary software solution, implementing testing strategies and methodologies from the Agile community . You will be integrated with a project Team to deliver strategic and tactical enhancements to Parametric’s proprietary software suite. You’ll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary, including Infrastructure, DevOps, InfoSec and Release Management.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
– Design, implement and maintain Test Cases and Test Plans for Parametric’s proprietary software
Design, implement and maintain Automated Test Suites for Parametric’s proprietary software
– Perform functional, exploratory, user acceptance testing and automated testing as part of Software Development Lifecycle and Release Process
– Provide thought and practice leadership in Testing excellence among Software Development and Testing peers
– Strive to develop and conduct software testing with high standards, thinking about engineering excellence.
– Learn and contribute to development across the entire stack (backend, DB, front end, UI)
– Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners
– Contribute to high-velocity delivery with safety; enable agility and iterative changes to the UI and product design

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
– Bachelor’s degree preferred
– 5+ years of software testing and test development experience
– Strong communication skills
– Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)
– Ability to quickly understand complex business problems
– Proven experience building high quality and comprehensive test plans and test cases custom software
– Proven experience testing web applications, web APIs and data driven applications
– Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines
– Experience in an Agile delivery environment
– Strong SQL coding and debugging skills
– Experience with service oriented architectures a plus
– Experience with cloud platform services a plus