Manual QA Engineer

Software Technology Inc

Washington, District of Columbia, USFull-timeMidPosted Recently

JIRA

Best fit for

This role is best for mid-level QA engineers with hands-on experience in Performance testing (JMeter / k6 / LoadRunner), Security testing (OWASP), Agile / Scrum, Test management (Jira / Zephyr / TestRail) open to working from Washington, District of Columbia, US.

Skills you need for this role

Detected from the job title, description, and tags.

Domain & process

Performance testing (JMeter / k6 / LoadRunner) — Different discipline from functional QA — expect scenario and metrics questions.
Security testing (OWASP) — Growing overlap between QA and application security.
Agile / Scrum — You'll be expected to describe how you fit QA into short iterations.
Test management (Jira / Zephyr / TestRail) — Process fluency — writing test cases, tracing coverage, and reporting defects.

Job description

Manual QA Engineer Experian Health is an industry leader modernizing revenue cycle management, identity management, patient engagement, care coordination and other solutions to hospitals, physician groups, labs, pharmacies, and other providers of healthcare services. The QA Analyst position is weighted more towards manual testing. The goal is to support application software testing, software integration, and configuration management tasks to assure customer satisfaction with application accuracy, quality, and adherence to standards. Responsibilities:

Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and developers to ensure test plans adequately cover all business and functional software requirements.
Create and execute test plans and test cases. (UAT, Integration, End-to-End, Penetration, Performance, Load, Regression, Beta)
Identify opportunities for automation within software processes.
Work closely with the Agile Team to develop comprehensive automated test suites providing maximum test coverage in the most efficient manner
Continuously review and improve test methodologies, tools and measurement of QA processes.
Ability to quickly and independently learn complex, highly configurable application software.
Identify, validate, track and communicate defects and risks to the development team(s).
Generate high-level QA status reports for management.
Work closely with team members to evangelize an emphasis on quality throughout the entire SDLC
Define and implement best practices for product releases including deployment prerequisites, documentation, and troubleshooting
Assist in preparing test criteria and test case specification documents for all phases of testing
Collaborate with developers to help create high value unit tests and testing solutions.
Assist in creating test data.
Organize large sets of tests into manageable test suites. Education and Experience:
BS or MS degree (or equivalent experience)
5-7 years of QA Engineering experience
Experience working in an Agile environment
Experience with cross-browser testing
Experience with Atlassian products such as JIRA, Confluence and Bamboo. Zephyr for JIRA is a plus.
Proven experience collaborating with remote teams.

Job highlights

•Role: Manual QA Engineer
•Company: Software Technology Inc
•Location: Washington, District of Columbia, US
•Type: Full-time
•Experience: Mid
•Seniority: Mid
•Posted: Recently

Key skills: JIRA

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Likely interview questions for this role

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Q1.How do you design a load test scenario from a production traffic pattern?
Q2.Walk me through a bug you found that shipped anyway — how did you handle it?
Q3.How do you decide what to automate vs test manually for a new feature?
Q4.How would you set up a test strategy for this team in your first 30 days?
Q5.Describe your ideal defect triage process with product + engineering.

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Salary context

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