Senior Quality Engineer
Appian
Job Description
About the Role
Here at Appian, we're passionate about technology. We love making it, and we love using it. We want to revolutionize the way people work, and in doing so, we develop the product to be simple so our customers can thrive. Joining Appian Engineering will provide you with the opportunity to learn in an environment that values cross-functional collaboration and is committed to personal and professional growth. Senior Quality Engineers ensure the high quality and timely delivery of our software to customers. They serve as champions for the customer perspective - ensuring that quality is embedded into every stage of the development process. With a strong understanding of complex system interactions and dependencies, they proactively identify potential risks and work cross-functionally to address them through thoughtful design and rigorous testing. Senior Quality Engineers analyze defects and delivery gaps to drive continuous improvement, ensuring issues are not repeated and our standards of excellence are consistently upheld.
Key Responsibilities
- Manually test and troubleshoot new features from a multitude of dimensions including functional, integration, end-to-end, performance and security across the web and mobile platforms across all technology layers of the product.
- Support existing features by performing regression testing when bugs are resolved.
- Perform analysis, research, and troubleshooting of software defects and aid in the documentation of defects and anomalies.
- Build, maintain and improve test artifacts for rapid and efficient reuse by the Test Engineering team.
- Work with other scrum team members to define and review Acceptance Criteria.
- Participate in critical release activities for all platforms.
- Ensure complete and timely reporting of bugs and test results.
- Know and able to effectively apply test design techniques.
- Systematically analyze requirements ensuring they provide effective input into Engineering activities.
- Effectively and efficiently determine root causes of leaked defects.
- Lead and/or participate in release management activities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant experience (e.g., Quality, Test, Performance, or Software Engineer).
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or related field.
Working at Appian
Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.
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About Appian
Website
appian.com
Company Size
501-1000 employees
Location
Mclean, VA
Industry
Software Publishers
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