Senior QA Engineer

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Company: CERES Group

Location: Waltham, MA 02453

Description:

We're a fast-growing company with 30 percent of our employee head count in technology. We've been recognized as a Best Place to Work 35 times (and counting), and Computerworld has ranked us highly nationwide for the past 10 years as one of the best places to work in IT-and for good reason. Conveniently located on the commuter rail near the intersection of Route 95 and the Mass Pike, we're accessible from anywhere-and away from the congestion of a downtown commute.

Our Project Management Office team, within our expansive Technology department, is looking to bring on an experienced QA engineer to help us release high-quality software in a timely manner. A typical day would have you working closely with other Development, offshore team members, and stakeholders to design, write, execute manual test cases, and report on the results in a Microsoft TFS with multiple complex projects.

A strong manual tester with SQL experience? A collaborative team player? Our workplace environment is fast paced, so the ability to stay on top of multiple projects with in the SCRUM team is essential. If you think you have what it takes, then let us talk.
Responsibilities:
  • Creating and executing manual test cases, plans and tests
  • Reporting, analyzing, and tracking defects
  • Assisting with software releases
  • Running SQL queries to validate results
  • Participating in a Scrum team, team stand-ups, grooming, planning meetings, and more Agile celebrations
  • Designing test scope, approaches, and strategies; creating test plans and cases, as appropriate
  • Designing or locating test data; ensuring that appropriate tests are executed-both during development and upon deployment
  • Collaborating with team members to identify areas of high risk and root cause of problems; working closely with team and developers to detect, prioritize, and fix defects
  • Providing status and risk assessment for management
Qualifications:
  • QA experience in support of integrated systems is a must
  • Strong manual testing with SQL; proficiency with SQL queries
  • Prior work in an Agile environment; Scrum desired
  • Experience with automated tools-ideally Selenium or a similar product
  • 3-8 years' testing experience in information services/technology
  • Financial or regulated SaaS systems experience
  • Experience in Agile SDLC
  • Experience working in a Microsoft environment; TFS and Visual Studio experience a plus
  • Familiarity with testing web-based applications
  • Experience with source control and bug-tracking systems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficient in manual testing; automated testing a plus

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