Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sound Decisions is a growing technology company in the FinTech and e-commerce space, focused on building secure, enterprise-grade software solutions. The QA Engineer role is crucial for ensuring the quality of products and services by designing and executing comprehensive testing plans, collaborating with various teams, and providing insights for product improvement.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute test plans to validate new products and features work as designed
- Design and execute regression test plans to ensure existing features continue to work as designed
- Debug issues to isolate and define error conditions
- Defining and documenting issues/defects in detail to provide development with everything needed to recreate and resolve the issue
- Retesting resolved defects and working with developers to ensure all aspects of an issue are resolved
- Find and explore edge cases
- Prioritization of feature testing and issue resolution
- Documenting, reporting, and tracking issues using Jira and other reporting tools
- Creating management reports on issue and resolution statistics and trends
- Monitor issue resolution progress to provide delivery estimates to implementation and customers
- Learn and use automated testing tools
- Build and execute automated application testing plans
- Assist development with defect recreation and resolution options
- Smoke testing of new products and features to aid product and development in design decisions
- Work with product to help create alternate solutions and product enhancements
- Work with customers to ensure test plans are consistent with usage
- Work with Implementation and Support to keep teams informed on issue resolution and delivery
Skills
- 5+ years of experience as a software QA tester for both API- and non-API driven software
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail from multiple vantage points (external and internal users, user experience, engineering team, leadership team, etc.)
- Keen attention to detail
- Insatiable curiosity and determination to commit to finding and solving issues
- Ability to dig deep into details and step back from 30,000 feet to assess and build scalable processes
- Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- Experience using project tracking software considered a strong asset (ex: JIRA)
- Experience using version control systems (ex: Git or Mercurial) would be considered an asset
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