Sr. QA Analyst at Horizontal Talent in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a dedicated Sr. QA Analyst to join their dynamic team. This role is integral to the Inspired Discovery team, which delivers digital customer experiences that drive engagement and excitement for new and noteworthy products. The successful candidate will be part of a high-performance engineering team that collaborates with various domain teams to deliver innovative solutions that enhance the customer's online experience.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and execute test processes, plans, and scripts, incorporating both manual and automated test suites.
- Establish and maintain bidirectional requirements traceability to test cases.
- Develop and execute manual/automated test scripts using Cucumber and Java/Groovy.
- Implement test assertions using groovy closures to test API JSON responses.
- Build Jenkins pipeline jobs and schedule CRON jobs for automated tests.
- Participate actively in Standups, Sprint Planning, Refinement meetings, Retrospections, and QA team meetings.
- Collaborate with QA Analysts and Software Developers to develop test automation solutions.
- Mentor other team members to improve their automation skills.

Required Skills and Experience:
- At least 5 years of experience in automation programming languages such as Java, Groovy, JavaScript.
- Proficiency with Selenium or other automation testing frameworks.
- Experience with Behavior Driven Development for automation using Cucumber.
- Experience with configuration and integration of test suites to run on automated build tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman).

Preferred Skills:
- Understanding of Junit and Spock Testing frameworks.
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience performance testing using Apache JMeter or equivalent tools.
- Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Proficiency with writing and executing SQL queries to retrieve data from Relational/NoSQL databases.
- Experience with NoSQL data stores (Cassandra,) and/or Splunk is a plus.
- Proficiency in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development.
- DevOps infrastructure experience.

The ideal candidate will be highly accurate, detail-oriented, and possess excellent mathematical and problem-solving skills. A coding test will be part of the selection process. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and the delivery of high-quality solutions.