Engineer Quality Assurance

Management and staff in Tungsten Automation's Quality Assurance job family help the company to assure that its products and technology solutions are designed and built in accordance with company standards and customer requirements. The position of Engineer is a core, entry-level departmental role and appointees are expected to perform whole core departmental tasks; albeit more basic tasks by comparison to Senior Engineers/Specialists and above.

Engineers will perform some of the following work and be involved in other aspects, as assigned:

• Developing quality assurance standards, requirements and metrics for all Tungsten Automation products and their applications, as well as customer-specific technology solutions
• Identifying, acquiring and using industry best-practice equipment, systems and programs for conducting all product and solutions' quality assurance testing
• Working with cross-functional partners, such as Core Engineering and Product Management, to proactively evaluate product roadmaps and other innovations; contributing a specialist quality assurance perspective and providing such input and feedback into the development process
• Developing and executing against quality assurance test plans:
• Developing and maintaining automated test programs and scripts
• Developing and executing against detailed test procedures and test cases
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners to resolve problems and identify root causes of potential defects
• Evaluating and reporting on test execution results
• Working within team and across departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement and maintain quality assurance testing processes and practices; continuously contributing to streamlined, more effective and efficient quality assurance testing
• Contributing, as appropriate, to downstream business activities such as technical publications and other technical communications' tool development to ensure streamlined and effective end-user use of Tungsten Automation software products and their applications
• Through efficient and effective quality assurance testing standards, tools, techniques and execution, helping Core Engineering and other cross-functional partners to maximize the potential for new or updated releases to be completed on-time, on-target, on-budget and without compromise to quality
• Supporting other internal and external partners/stakeholders/customers, as and when appropriate, in responding to quality assurance testing inquiries and/or other ad hoc needs
• Staying abreast of industry and field developments; remaining current in the latest quality assurance testing technologies and functionalities, as well as ever-evolving needs of customers and their customers

While the job description describes what is anticipated as the requirements of the position, the job requirements are subject to change based upon any changing needs and requirements of the business.

Required Skills

Experience:

3-5+ years in manual/functional testing of web applications, with strong end-to-end QA process knowledge.

Core QA (Required):

Test planning/strategy, requirements analysis, risk-based testing.
Test design techniques: equivalence partitioning, boundary value, state transition, and decision tables.
Regression, smoke/sanity, exploratory testing; cross-browser/device validation.
Defect lifecycle management, traceability matrix, test reporting/metrics

Platforms & Tools (Required):

Windows Server (user/admin tasks, services, logs, IIS basics).
SQL Server (write/read queries, joins, test data setup, validate SPs/views).
Virtual machines (VMware/Hyper-V: snapshots, networking, provisioning).
Web app testing with browser DevTools (network, console, storage, performance).
Bug tracking: Azure DevOps/TFS, Jira.
Visual Studio basics to run existing automated tests (MSTest/NUnit).
Basic Git usage (pull, branch, review) for test assets.

Nice to Have:

Automation & Scripting: C# or JavaScript for authoring/maintaining tests; frameworks like Selenium/WebDriver,
Cloud & Containers: Azure or AWS (fundamentals), Docker (build/run images, compose basics).
CI/CD: integrate tests in pipelines (Azure DevOps/Jenkins), test reporting dashboards.
Non-functional: performance testing (JMeter/k6), security testing awareness (OWASP Top 10), accessibility basics (WCAG)."

Required Experience

Candidates for this position should hold the following qualifications, have the following experience, and be able to demonstrate the following competencies to be considered as a suitable applicant. Please note that except where specified as "preferred," or as a "plus," all points listed below are considered minimum requirements.

• Bachelors Degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
• Typically has 3-5 years' relevant technical experience

Tungsten Automation is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V