Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Analyst 2 : Kodiak
Job Description:
The Quality Analyst 2 role with a stronger emphasis on Data Quality Testing, works within our agile/scrum Product Engineering team to work on assigned testing tasks provided and overseen by a more senior Quality Analyst. This role takes on and completes small tasks to the definition of done, works with immediate peers, and communicates appropriately.
Quality Analyst role with a stronger emphasis on Data Quality Testing
Responsibilities:
Reviews User Stories and Acceptance Criteria to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
Designs, develops, maintains functional test cases, and ensures all tests are traceable.
Ensures defects are recorded, reported, re-tested and traceable to the user story.
Applies SDLC and STLC concepts.
Participates in creation and updates to the Quality Strategy.
Ensures User expectations are met during the testing process.
Documents test results.
Skills:
Growth Mindset - Open to learning new skills and recognizes weakness in themselves.
Empathy & Humility - Understands, on a basic level, and builds on the viewpoints of others. Makes sound decisions keeping customer in the forefront.
Communication - Communicates effectively with immediate peers.
Initiative - Does not wait to be asked. If you are stuck on something you seek help quickly. Open-minded about your own skillset.
Objectivity & Adaptability - Objective in evaluating your work and comfortable and accepting of new contexts and roles.
Technical Understanding and Prioritization – Shows some confidence in technical understanding including the importance of prioritization.
Product Knowledge – Understands the purpose of the product. Learns how it can be adapted to meet different needs.
Debugging & Monitoring - Understands debugging basics, the appropriate tools to use, and is beginning to rely on good monitoring practices.
Security - Understands the importance of security, handling data responsibly, and basic security principles and applies them to daily work.
User Focus - Can describe the typical user and some of their needs and problems. Works to observe users regularly.
Visual Design - Follows a style guide to produce smaller features. Has a good grounding in typography, color, and layout.
Application Testing - Understands how to test code, and the valuable role that testing plays.
Attention to Detail - Completes tasks to a good level of detail. Maps out failure states. Thinks about interaction details.
Culture and Togetherness - Is conscious of signaling and tries to act as they would expect other team members to act. Works to develop good positive relationships. Participates in team activities.
Stakeholder Management - Keeps tangential teams informed and expectations managed around everyday work updates. Uses judgement about others' reaction when disclosing information and opinions.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Graduation or Post Graduation degree in Computer Science or engineering fields, or equivalent experience.
2+ years of overall software testing experience.
1+ years of experience in test automation of test cases and data quality testing.
Experience writing SQL queries, querying relational databases, ETL testing and API testing.
Experience with tools Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, ADO, Postman
Basic programming skills in C#, Java or another Object-Oriented language.
Knowledge of Agile Scrum methodology including Agile ceremonies.
Understanding of the various QA terminologies, SDLC and STLC.

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