Test Engineer

**Responsibilities**:

- Participate in a Scrum Development Team and be the Test specialist
- Work with your Scrum Development Team, Scrum Master, and Product Owner to groom a product backlog and determine acceptance criteria
- Participate in estimating the effort needed to complete a PBI
- Create test related tasks and estimate effort for product backlog items pulled into a sprint
- Write and articulate good quality test cases, that are reusable and can be run by anyone on your Scrum team or other QA team members
- Create test cases that accurately test acceptance criteria, edge-cases, and negative path scenarios
- Communicate test progress, test results, and impediments for any work assigned to you
- Perform test execution using detailed test scripts and using Exploratory Testing
- Document bugs thoroughly and work with programmers to troubleshoot issues you find
- Perform demonstrations of completed sprint backlog items at the Sprint Review meeting for the Product owner and stakeholders
- Become comfortable raising issues and risks to your Scrum Master and Product Owner
- Assist fellow QA team members on their Scrum projects when they become over-allocated
- Learn the Scrum framework thoroughly and participate in Scrum Retrospectives
- Write complex queries when necessary to troubleshoot issues, analyze data and/or verify test results
- Become proficient in understanding how to read API route documentation, resource URI construction, HTTP Methods, and HTTP Status Codes
- Perform REST API Testing by constructing API requests and validating the responses via an API Testing Client
- Prepare smoke tests for scrum team to execute in Staging and Production environments to validate new releases

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**

The job duties listed are typical examples of the work performed by positions in this job classification. Not all duties assigned to every position are included, nor is it expected that all positions will be assigned every duty.

**Additional Duties & Responsibilities**
- _Conduct business at all times with the highest standards of personal, professional and ethical conduct._
- _Perform or assist with any operations as required to maintain workflow and to meet schedules. Notify supervision of unusual equipment or operating problems and the need for additional material and supplies._
- _May participate in any variety of meetings and work groups to integrate activities, communicate issues, obtain approvals, resolve problems and maintain specified level of knowledge pertaining to new developments, requirements, policies, and regulatory guidelines._
- _Ensure all safety precautions are followed while performing the work._
- _Follow all policies and Standard Operating Procedures as instructed by Management._
- _Perform any range of special projects, tasks and other related duties as assigned._

**Education & Experience**
- 2+ years of Software testing experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field would be a plus.

**Knowledge, Skills & Proficiencies**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
- Detailed understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and the different development methodologies
- Strong understanding of the Agile methodology, Scrum Framework, and different approaches for testing in an Agile environment
- Prior experience working in a Scrum environment
- Knowledge and experience working in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Online to access TFS/VSTS work items, tasks, and queries. Experience using Microsoft Test Manager for test planning, execution and exploratory testing.
- Experience testing API routes and using a client to write API requests and read responses (Postman, DHC, Fiddler)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and manage your own time
- Highly analytical and detail oriented, with strong problem-solving skills
- Must be able to write complex SQL queries
- Must be a team player and demonstrate the ability to follow processes, work effectively in a team, maintain a positive attitude, and adjust to changing priorities or processes

**Lenguage**
- English ( Conversational )
- Spanish ( Conversational )

**Disclaimer**

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. This is not an all-inclusive job description; therefore, management has the right to assign or reassign schedules, duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From $2,600,000 per month

Ability to commute/reloca