Software Quality Assurance Engineer III

Verisk

Boston, MA

Full Time

Mid Level

about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

At Verisk EES (Extreme Event Solutions), we do some cool advanced analytic stuff! We build stochastic models to simulate Catastrophic Events that will inform the insurance industry. Events include Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and Flooding, just to name a few. We then run Monte Carlo simulations to provide hundreds of thousands of years of simulated events. These help the insurance industry make objective and data-driven decisions based on their risk tolerances. As a company, we have a strong sense of purpose and know we are helping resilient communities worldwide. This role is focused on our SaaS Solutions, working for Quality Assurance on the implementation of our cloud products.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and analyze requirements, ensuring clarity and completeness for testing purposes.
Author detailed and structured test plans based on software requirements, ensuring all aspects of the product are thoroughly tested.
Develop and document test cases and test scripts that cover all aspects of the product, including functional, non-functional, and regression testing.
Partner with C# developers to identify test areas and ensure full product coverage.
Code in C# to develop unit and integration tests optimized for AWS environment, with organized documentation of test cases.
Author API-based requests to execute scrum team integration tests to determine pass/fail responses, implemented within our in-house automation framework.
Use quantitative data analytics to understand complex multi-model scenarios and ensure robust testing, participating in cross-functional Agile Scrum teams.
Apply strong analytical focus and attention to detail with a methodical approach to problem solving.
Maintain a strong commitment to quality assurance by leveraging and enhancing existing best practices.

Requirements

An undergraduate or graduate degree in a STEM-related area, including data science, engineering, science, mathematics, or finance.
Minimum 2 to 4 years of Quality Assurance experience working in an Agile software development team.
Experience testing microservices-based and highly distributed systems.
Experience in writing and executing performance tests.
Demonstrated experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C++, C#, or Java.
Experience with cloud-native products, web development, web testing, and cloud-testing environments, preferably within AWS ecosystem.
Aptitude for quantitative problem-solving or advanced analytics.
Experience with API testing (Postman) and end-to-end testing tools like Cypress.
Strong working knowledge of relational databases and experience with on-premises or cloud-based advanced database systems.