Senior QA Engineer (Hybrid)

About Our Company
This is an opportunity for the best of both worlds between being on the ground floor of an exciting opportunity and joining an established and successful technology team. You would be joining forces with the technology team of our sister company, Rapid Finance, to work on an internal suite of products as well as building brand new commercial off the shelf products using the latest Microsoft technology stack.

About the opportunity
The Senior QA Engineer (Automation) is responsible for improving the quality of a variety of software applications by creating and executing tests. The individual in this role will interact with developers, business analysts, and end users to develop appropriate test scenarios, use case documents, and support documents. This role will also imply being the second tier of technical support for end users and leading stakeholder demonstration sessions.
The candidate must be great at multi-tasking and working without a lot of specific directions at times. Individual creativity and initiative are very important. 
Our engineers will work remotely for the foreseeable future due to the current state of the pandemic.
Required qualifications
 

• Minimum 5 years of work experience
• Primary responsibility for end-to-end QA tasks (to include writing and executing test      cases, managing bug lists) for complex items resulting in minimal production issues
• Proven ability to work independently on complex projects and assist or lead peers if applicable
• Excellent ability to communicate effectively within and outside team at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated progressive expansion of knowledge and responsibilities by taking on more items and coordinating efforts with other teams
• Documented ownership of items in an end-to-end fashion with a focus on hitting deadlines and excellent time management
• Initiative to explore and learn new QA testing tools as technology evolves and make suggestions to improve QA processes
• Think outside the box and identify problems and bring to light ideas that aren't specifically included in requirements or mentioned by others
• Knowledge and experience with SDLC methodologies, tools, and processes
• Exposure to AzureDevops and/or TFS (Team Foundation Server) tools is preferred
• Self-starter, detail-oriented, has high integrity, and excellent research skills

• Advanced Java programming knowledge
• Strong knowledge of Java-based frameworks and ability to design frameworks
• Hands-on experience using Selenium web driver
• Proven experience of working with source control tools like Git/Azure Repository
• Proven experience of using Azure for CI/CD
• Hybrid Role

Office: Bethesda, Maryland
 
Responsibilities will include
 

• Perform functional, regression, integration, sanity, and ad-hoc testing
• Analyze business system requirements and develop test procedure documents
• Detect software quality issues, report and track them to resolution
• Participate in the testing of production emergency bug fixes
• Provide second tier of functional help desk support to internal & external software users
• Actively participate in daily scrum meetings, bring up issues that create obstacles for QA

Automation QA Engineer should have additional skills below:

• Advanced Java programming knowledge
• Strong knowledge of Java-based frameworks and ability to design frameworks
• Hands-on experience using Selenium web driver
• Proven experience of working with source control tools like GitLab/GitHub
• Proven experience of using Jenkins for CI/CD

Why Milestone Technology?
We are excited to have you join our amazing team, great company culture and broad range of benefits including a technology allowance for team members to acquire exciting new tech items, online training subscriptions, and discretionary yearly bonuses.

At Milestone, our mentality is to always move quickly and creatively, keep teams small and flexible and always tackle complex problems in unique ways.  We believe in a flat organization where everyone could take on new responsibilities, wear multiple hats and interact with members of the leadership team.  Unlike a consulting engagement which can be a bit alienating, there isn’t a project or a finite engagement that is limited in scope.  We are building a successful technology company together and that comes across in our approach and in everything we do.

Milestone Technology is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workforce