Quality Automation Engineer

Prominent is looking for a Quality Automation Engineer for our client in Greenwood Village, Colorado or Omaha, Nebraska. This is a contract to hire opportunity and 100% onsite. As a Quality Automation Engineer you will help the organization reduce risk and deliver high quality software applications by:

• Working with Technical and Business groups to define the scope of testing required
• Using your experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Defining and executing test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications
• Leading and participating in test planning and quality review sessions
• Writing test cases/scripts which may include application, network, system, regression and user acceptance testing
• Leading test projects with minimal supervision
• Participating in daily calls as needed for coordination of efforts.
• Performing technical testing activities including planning, design, scripting, and execution, debugging and reporting
• Creating and executing automated and manual tests for large projects.
• Researching new tools and testing approaches.
• Performing post-test execution activities including error debugging, and internal and external communications
• Assisting with testing execution for all system components, including functional and integration testing, ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases, documenting test cases and generating reports; generating software quality related metrics
• Working with multiple programs and systems on projects of high complexity
• Providinge technical leadership, mentoring, and training to less experienced individuals.
• Project Leadership:
• Provide quality and test advocacy.
• Perform planning, organizing, monitoring, and oversight of all phases of testing.
• Work closely with project manager and others to ensure business testing requirements are being met.
• QA Project Leadership duties
• Lead preparation of business scenarios and required test scripts, including identification of needed master and transactional data to execute end-to-end testing
• Facilitate test meetings and escalating issues/concerns to the project management team as needed.
• Monitor issues and defects for trends and provide metrics to the project management team
• Responsible for the oversight of requirement traceability throughout all test phases
• Participate in requirements and design walkthroughs to understand the testing needs and raise questions to clarify as needed
• Manage risks associated with testing, taking preventative action when risks become unacceptable
• Manage stakeholder relationships with respect to all testing matters

• 5 years experience testing on mainframe, midrange and API applications
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience and/or Certifications.
• Experience using SQL for test data creation and verification
• Experience with test case development and execution tools such as Jira Test Management, Azure DevOps
• Journeyman knowledge of information systems elements (hardware, software, network) and their application to business functions/processes.
• Understanding of the key processes in the business and the business rules that impact the development and/or implementation of information systems
• Self-starting and comfortable with independently creating test plans and test scenarios with minimum assistance using application and requirement documentation
• Works well with ambiguity and changing requirements
• Drives continuous improvement through all processes, including but not limited to, team standards, test planning, resourcing and test execution, as well as debugging, metric collection, and reporting.