Senior QA Engineer - FULL REMOTE - Contractor in USD

• Acts as a QA focal point to development teams when communicating with Quality Assurance Team members;
  
• Provides support for QA and related services and help to expand and improve the effectiveness of these services;
  
• Creates, executes, automates, and manages test cases and test plans for existing and developed systems;
  
• Supports software development process and implementation of new software releases by testing computer application systems and programs, using team established standards for IT technologies and tools;
  
• Participates in the specification, design, automation and support of computer application systems from a quality assurance perspective;
  
• Drafts technical documentation for deployed computer application systems in the form of test cases and user stories;
  
• Maintains test and functional specifications for computer application systems, programs and procedures developed and/or modified;
  
• Drafts correspondence, communications and prepares team contributions for a variety of periodic reports;
  
• Keeps abreast of developments in the field of quality assurance and proposes new acquisitions as appropriate;
  
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
  

• Bachelor or Master degree;
  
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation certification or similar certification is required. Any relevant additional QA certifications are desirable;
  
• +3 years of providing software quality assurance for medium-large sized development teams is required;
  
• +3 years of experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks or designing automated testing suites is required;
  
• +3 years of experience with regular release testing and clearance using Agile development approaches such as SCRUM is required;
  
• +3 years of experience with managing test code and definitions using Software Configuration Management and integrating testing and clearance processes with build tools such as Azure DevOps Services is required.
  
• +1 year of git source control including branching and processing of pull requests is required;
  
• +3 years of experience with developing UI test automation with Selenium using C#/.NET is required;
  
• +3 years in servicing geo/time zone distributed dev teams, QA team members, and clients is required;
  
• Daily, hands-on practical experience with writing test cases using Gherkin syntax is desirable;
  
• Daily, hands-on practical experience with testing software for Prince2 based projects is desirable;
  
• Experience in testing applications hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is desirable;
  
• Fluent in English;
  

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