Location: Ann Arbor, MI (Candidates should be local to the Ann Arbor area or willing to relocate)
Salary: $95,000-$100,000
The Software Quality Engineer II plays a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software applications. This position focuses on developing and executing automated and manual testing strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving continuous improvement in QA processes. The role requires strong technical expertise, attention to detail, and a passion for delivering high-quality software in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Participate in developing and documenting user stories by providing test strategy and automation estimates.
- Develop, document, and maintain test strategies, plans, and scenarios for multiple environments.
- Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, API, regression, end-to-end (E2E), functional, smoke, load, usability, and platform tests.
- Conduct code reviews for test automation artifacts to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability.
- Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation.
- Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments and CI/CD pipelines.
- Regularly execute, maintain, and update automated test suites; analyze failures and update scripts.
- Create defects with detailed documentation and validate fixes; ensure timely resolution and required automation updates.
- Present results and provide sign-off on software functionality for production releases.
- Work with cross-functional teams and release management to manage development, QA, and production releases.
- Perform exploratory testing to uncover unexpected behaviors and refine test cases.
- Contribute to QA automation frameworks using industry-standard tools and approaches (e.g., JAVA Springboot2, RestAssured, GraphQL, Cucumber, Spring JDBC, GitHub, Git/Stash, SQL, Postman).
- Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
- Participate in analyzing major incidents and emergency change controls to identify automation opportunities.
- Strong focus on automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
- Active participation in code reviews and governance.
- Collaborate with developers and product teams to ensure quality standards.
- Support automation efforts by creating and maintaining automated test scripts.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with QA best practices and organizational standards.