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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Pearson
Centennial, CO, United States
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Description
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Qualifications
• Guides the planning, creation and execution of tests both manual and automated tests using an test automation tool including, but not limited to, Selenium, JUnit, and Java based home grown test frameworks. Understands the concepts behind and when to do automation.
• Has demonstrated lead capabilities: lead a team successfully, worked well with other departments – Dev/PM/PdM, etc. Contributes to the development of other team members. Has demonstrated planning and resource scheduling skills. Facilitates troubleshooting and solves problems.
• Understands and implements, at a team level, practices developed by the Core Platforms Practice Areas.
• Understands when to execute a SQL trace to capture stored procedure execution/duration and read/writes.
• Ensures highly complex testing on projects utilizing Practice Area guidelines. Such as, understanding API/Web Services testing and understanding when to write test harnesses using web services technologies and is able to disseminate this information to team members.
• Leads, plans, schedules and implements testing for projects, defines test objectives, writes scripts (manual and automated). Formulates test plans including systems analysis, risk analysis, dependency analysis, writing and plotting test strategies, and determines how to report defects (pre/post- production).
• Investigates and reports project issues by communicating and working with various departments including: Development, Product, Project Management, Systems and Application support groups, Network Engineering, etc., as well as other project teams.
• Provides training and mentoring to Software Quality Engineers
• Analyzes and ensures requirements/User Story acceptance criteria are acceptable for test case creation.
• Executes manual and automated test cases, as well as performs back end data validation.
• Tracks test progress and results in test management tools like Jira, Stash, Jenkins and QMetry / ALM
• Identifies opportunities, then leads the roll out of inventive tech ideas and implements solutions with other projects teams, the SQE department, as well as other departments.
• Other duties as assigned.