Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

HelloGreeting from E-ITRole: Senior QE SDET EngineerLocation: Raleigh NC (100% Onsite from Day 1) ContractJob Description: Software Development Test EngineerWhat you are good atDevelop, execute and maintain automation tests cases and test scenarios - for high volume, low latency web applicationsImplement test automation framework for web services, APIs, and web-based applicationsEnsure automation is constantly running, analyzing, documenting, and promptly reporting on failuresWrite and execute performance and load tests for multiple applications to measure scalability and stabilityDesign test cases and test plans for given acceptance criteriaCoordinate with scrum team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to integrate project plans, testing schedules, and metrics reporting.Understand the application architecture, hosting infrastructure, interaction with dependency apps and complete feature workflow to assess all the risk around integration points before developing good test cases.Provide complete testing coverage including manual testing when automation is not possibleStrong debugging and troubleshooting skills to provide detailed root cause analysis.What you haveBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a closely related field.5+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance for highly complex projects related to cloud, distributed systems, REST Services, Web Services / Microservices, and/or data processes.5+ years of experience with a subset of the following:Writing test automation with C#/.NET.Hands on working experience of testing REST, Web APIs and SOAP APIs with tools like RestAssured, RestSharp, SoapUI, WireMock or Parasoft SOAtest.Experience with databases preferably NoSQL, MongoDB/Aerospike.Strong experience in writing comprehensive test plans for functional, regression, acceptance and stress testing.Design and implement modular and reusable automated test scripts utilizing Objected Oriented Programming(OOP) principles and design patterns such as Page Object Models(POM) and Data-Driven Testing.Perform Functional, regression, performance test execution.Occasionally execute manual testing (black box and white box).Strong written and verbal communications, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.Ability to interact and communicate successfully with business partners and technology teams.Experience with Agile Development Practices, Scrum and supporting apps.Self-starter who can grasp difficult concepts and large architectures quickly and stay on top of new and emerging technologies.Ability to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions when tools don’t work.Experience working with resources in different geographical locations and offshore vendors.Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and processes such as SCRUM and Agile