Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
ITW
**Job Description:**
Position Summary:
In this role, you'll join an Agile team responsible for creating software features within Alpine’s suite of software products. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will work with their team and across teams to design and implement testing procedures and processes including development of testing strategies and creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and documentation. This role is responsible for overall quality of our software products.
Primary Responsibilities:
+ Lead creation of testing strategies, standards, and test plans for our software products and features
+ Create and updatetestplans, test cases as well as other test assets such as data validation scripts and test data for new and existing software products and features
+ Evaluate and execute test plans and test cases and perform exploratory testing to identify any issues or defects and to ensure overall quality of the software releases
+ Document issues and defects in JIRA with all details and ensure timely communication to the product owners, development teams, and stakeholders
+ Aid in gathering and documenting requirements in JIRA in the form of Agile Epics, User Stories, and tasks.
+ Participate in design and peer review sessions of technical solutions and related code
**Competencies:**
+ **Team skills** **-** Collaborate with the team as needed. Able to gain trust from their team, peers, and senior leadership. Help the team stay focused on quality and reliability of the software, and act as a buddy to new employees.
+ **Communication** - Able to communicate in a clear, concise manner. Able to engage with both peers and managers.
+ **Adaptability** – Able to adapt to unexpected changes or new demands while working on projects or routine testing.
+ **Analytical** – Able to discover, interpret, and communicate meaningful patterns and separate into logical components or elements, as well as understandtheir practical application by users of the software.
+ **Continuous Learning** - Actively identify new areas for learning; regularly create and take advantage of learning opportunities; use newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learn through their application. 
+ **Innovation** – Generate innovative solutions in work situations; try different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
+ **Influence –** Apply constructive persuasion and negotiation techniques to influence decisions that are mutually beneficial
**Job Requirements:**
+ Bachelor’s degree or higher preferably in Computer Science or Engineering related fields
+ 6+ more years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineeror similar role in the construction industry.
+ Experience working with truss design industry is preferred.
+ Working knowledge and expertise of the Agile development methodology using Scrum or Kanban
+ Demonstrated experience leading QA strategy and establishing quality best practices and procedures
+ Some experience using testing tools such as Selenium, Zephyr and/or Test Complete is good to have, but not needed
+ Familiarity with DBMS tools such as Microsoft SQL Server and data formats such as XML and JSON
+ Familiar with manual and automated testing strategies such as unit testing, functional testing, end-to-end testing, acceptance testing, and performance testing, and when to apply various strategies
+ Excellent problem solving and strong analytical skills
+ Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills
+ Ability to work in teams and independently
**Work Environment:**
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
**Physical Demands:**
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, hear, reach with hands and arms and regularly required to walk. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
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