Senior Quality Engineer

Description

This senior quality engineering role combines test automation with systems operations, requirements work, coding and design, and includes mentoring team members.

The work supports eCommerce websites and the systems behind them, with a focus on reliability, growth and cost-effective IT resources.

Responsibilities

• Build and run automation tools that remove repetitive tasks from workflows and releases.
• Handle routine infrastructure upkeep such as backups, patch management and hotfixes, and escalate any problem found on backup media.
• Check desktops against IT policy and run regular database integrity checks to keep data loss to a minimum.
• Troubleshoot systems engineering issues as software operational support: research reports, build fixes or escalate them, spot trends, find root causes, work with cross-functional teams and keep stakeholders informed.
• Run daily operations for existing systems: maintain complex setups, monitor health and performance, review logs to catch issues early, and document findings.
• Build operational features and management processes that let eCommerce websites handle growth and traffic, and design systems testing processes and environments.
• Keep engineering processes and designs documented, and coach and train team members.
• Understand business, stakeholder and technical requirements, help assess existing solutions, maintain the requirement traceability matrix, and help write user stories for components, modules and simpler requirements.
• Follow coding guidelines, write or configure small components under guidance, keep development records, track the latest languages and frameworks, find CI/CD and testing tasks to automate, add telemetry when asked, and apply security policy to your code.
• Suggest cost-effective IT right-sizing for current and future needs, analyse resource use, right-size applications to meet service levels, and help build capacity plans.
• Define the processes, tools and baseline products for low-complexity projects, and set up new cloud virtual machines for email, intranet, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs and core business applications.
• Prioritise issues with moderate supervision on moderate-complexity projects, propose feasible fixes on your own, and weigh every available option.
• Maintain branches for ongoing development and releases, tag every code version, and record the differences between versions.
• Help create simple, modular, extensible and functional designs that meet requirements, and weigh trade-offs across system components against business needs.

Requirements

• A Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related field, plus 1 year of experience in software quality assurance, manual or automated testing, or related work; or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of those fields, plus 3 years of experience in software quality assurance, manual or automated testing, or related work.
• Experience creating and maintaining reusable, parallel, independent and highly scalable automation test suites in Java.
• Experience writing automated API and Azure Cloud tests with Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Maven and Extent Reports.
• Experience with performance testing in LoadRunner.
• Experience deploying rollouts with DevOps.
• Experience integrating a testing framework with Looper.
• Experience with QA testing methodologies and Agile software development.
• Experience querying and fetching data with SQL.
• Experience designing Cucumber frameworks for test cases.
• Experience using Git to track code changes and GitHub.
• Any amount of experience with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

The rate of pay is $82,493.00 to $155,000.00 per year.

The role is based at 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and runs a drug-free workplace with zero tolerance for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Performance incentives paid annually or quarterly.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including PTO with sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability, college degree assistance with the company covering 100% of the cost, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement and more.
• Some benefits depend on job classification and length of employment, and benefits and plan terms may change.