Senior QA Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and design comprehensive test plans, test scenarios and test cases.
• Conduct thorough functional testing to confirm software functionality, identify defects, and ensure adherence to specifications.
• Investigate and report defects, track issues, and work closely with developers to ensure prompt resolution.
• Work with product stakeholders to identify and prioritize tests that could be automated to drive efficiency.
• Develop new automated test cases and enhance current test suite as new functionality is built.
• Run automated test suite and report the testing results to the stakeholders.
• Support Production deployments and critical manual and automated smoke testing.
• Ensure that automated test code adheres to PetSmart standards and participate in automation strategy and optimization efforts.
• Be self-motivated and disciplined to meet deadlines with speed, accuracy, and professional attitude.
• Maintain excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Apply excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Collaborate effectively as a team player and resolve conflicts constructively.

Requirements

• Experience in Retail, or E-Commerce domain.
• Experience with RESTful web service APIs.
• Experience testing on real devices and simulators like BrowserStack.
• Expertise in automating web and mobile applications across multiple devices and platforms using test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, JMeter).
• Code analysis and review experience for QA automation code.
• Experience with test management tools such as QTest or HP ALM suite.
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with continuous integration tools like CloudBees (Jenkins).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language for automation, preferably Java.

Nice to Have

• APIs and web application performance testing experience.
• Knowledge of additional languages such as Python or Groovy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of experience writing test code in multiple languages (Java, Python).
• Expertise in automating web and mobile applications across multiple devices and platforms using test automation tools such as Selenium, Appium, TestNG, and JUnit/NUnit.
• Solid understanding of software testing practices and agile development.
• Ability to work independently with a strong work ethic.
• Effective communication skills and a positive, team-oriented attitude.