IT Lead Senior QA Engineer
Northeast Shared Services
- Schenectady, NY
- $111,946-129,247 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and implement software quality assurance standards, processes, and procedural controls.
- Develop methods for software testing, sampling and training.
- Develop documentation and procedures that support Engineering, Quality, Production and Service.
- Lead the Qualification/Validation process for product development projects and coordinate the same with all the players involved in the testing process.
- Develop and run tests for the purpose of testing/evaluating/debugging new product releases or PC applications (beta versions).
- Make recommendations for the acquisition of evaluation/development tools and equipment to support the main responsibilities of this position.
- Test and debug software/firmware applications and new product/software to meet scheduled release dates.
- Develop testing schedules and processes to refine software/firmware application release process.
- Execute tests scripts for unit testing and regression testing for maintenance/project releases.
- Analyze manual test cases and functional specifications to determine best approach for automating scripts.
- Analyze test results to report defects and issues found during test run.
- Create manual test scenarios and perform manual functional testing as required.
- Document scripts with comments to provide insight to test logic.
- Provide estimates and status updates on automation scripts.
- Develop and maintain a software/firmware application tracking system.
- Manage, plan, schedule, and report software Quality Assurance objectives.
- The area of responsibility includes staff and on-shore and off-shore contracting support.
- The position requires a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electronics engineering, or a related field.
- Designing and deploying software quality assurance processes, procedural controls, and standards;
- Developing and implementing the NCR (retalix) applications for storeline and self-checkout applications;
- Writing test scripts on NCR RESB, Loyalty, Front office and Point of Sale (POS) systems;
- Automating the Point of Sale (POS) related test scripts by using HP UFT;
- Working with Retail Software including NCR Storeline, NCR Point of Sale, and Optimal Robotics POS;
- Working with ETL Tools, including SSIS and BODS 4.1; and
- Working with Automation Tools, including HP UFT, Selenium and JMeter.