QA Automation Engineer

Role- QA Automation Engineer

Morgan Stanley's Parametric Asset Manager subsidiary company.

They have an internally built Asset Management software system that has to be tested.

Job Title: QA Automation Engineer (Morgan Stanley's Parametric subsidiary. Parametric is an ASSET MANAGEMENT company)

Location: Minneapolis, MN – Only local candidates to do in-person interview

Interview Process: 1 video interview for an hour and 1 in-person interview in the office in Minneapolis, MN

Payment: $70/hour corp to corp

Work VISA Status: USC/GC only

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This position reports to the Director of QA Engineering. As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for testing proprietary software solution, design, build and support of Test Automation software. You will be integrated with a project Team to deliver strategic and tactical enhancements to Parametric's proprietary software suite . You'll also collaborate with other technology teams in the organization as necessary, including Infrastructure, DevOps, InfoSec and Release Management.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

– Design, implement and maintain Test Cases and Test Plans for Parametric's proprietary software

– Design, implement and maintain Automated Test Suites for Parametric's proprietary software

– Perform functional, exploratory, user acceptance testing and automated testing as part of Software Development Lifecycle and Release Process

– Strive to develop and conduct software testing with high standards, thinking about engineering excellence.

– Assist and mentor other QA engineers with User Acceptance Testing, which includes answering client questions, tracking all reported issues and identifying whether they are bugs or enhancements

– Learn and contribute to development across the entire stack (backend, DB, front end, UI)

– Engage in a highly collaborative team environment including business partners and product owners

– Contribute to high-velocity delivery with safety; enable agility and iterative changes to the UI and product design

JOB REQUIREMENTS

– Bachelor's degree or equivalent field and/or comparable work experience

– 5+ years of software testing and test development experience

– Strong communication skills

– Well-versed in all testing methodologies (black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory and automated testing)

– Ability to quickly understand complex business problems

– Experience in one or more Test Automation Frameworks – Appium, Selenium

– Proven experience building high quality and comprehensive test plans and test cases custom software

– Proven experience testing web applications, web apis and data driven applications

– Proven experience designing and implementing automated test suites

– Proven experience with CI/CI pipelines

– Experience in an Agile delivery environment

– Experience with cloud platform services

– Strong SQL coding and debugging skills

– Experience with service-oriented architectures a plus