Senior QA Test Engineer

Siemens Digital Industries Software, a business unit of the Siemens, is a leading global provider of software solutions to drive the digital transformation of industry, creating new opportunities for manufacturers to realize innovation.

We are looking for a Senior QA Test Engineer to join our scrum team in building our next generation global online store platform.

If you are passionate about quality and enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment, we’d love to talk to you.

The Role

You will be required to design and complete test cases to validate functionality being created during agile sprints. Write functional test cases to be included in an automated regression suite. Improve test specifications by analyzing the root causes of technical issues and develop testing solutions for those root causes.

Create and apply new approaches as necessary to improve the productivity and efficiency of testing. Acquire customer inputs for project testing purposes.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Participate in scrum development team to ensure continuous quality of work in each sprint
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases for user stories
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, coordinate and conduct testing activities
• Collaborate with internal partners to elevate business strategies into the users' online experience
• Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in our defect tracking system
• Work with development team to clearly communicate defects and steps to reproduce for rapid resolution
• Write test code for automated testing tools in various languages
  
  

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education And Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or equivalent experience

• +8 years of experience in software quality assurance including functional test automation of web applications from a user experience perspective
• Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies
• Experience using an agile approach to software development
• Write clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Familiarity with XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript frameworks
• Must be able to write a test approach/strategy
• Experience in software usability principles and interface and functional design
• Strong focus on user experience and simple design solutions
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Strong understanding of web application testing, including cross-browser concerns and responsive design
• Collaborate well with developers to advocate the user’s perspective
• Understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests and/or user-level test automation tools
• Programming ability sufficient to write functional test code in automation testing tools
• Strong understanding of customer usage models for e-commerce and develop test plans and test suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization
• Experience writing Selenium WebDriver tests and completing them in multiple browsers and on multiple platforms is strongly preferred.v
• Strong analytical skills, technical capability, & written/verbal communication skills
  
  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are Siemens

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow! We offer a comprehensive reward package which includes a competitive basic salary, bonus scheme, generous holiday allowance, pension, and private healthcare.

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