Acclaim Projects – Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
About Sopheon
Innovation is about getting your most powerful ideas to market.
That’s why we’re here. Sopheon sets the standard in developing the tools you need to capture the ideas in front of you that have the highest potential (value, adoption, impact), and capitalize on them by efficiently and effectively getting them into customers’ hands. Forever finding new ways forward is how even the most creative companies keep achieving sustainable, profitable futures.
Sopheon is an international supplier of leading-edge products in innovation and new product development. Sopheon has operating bases in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
A company can only be as forward-thinking as its people
That’s why Sopheon fosters a supportive and collaborative work environment that encourages our employees to be...
- Innovative
- Enthusiastic
- Empowered
Sopheon is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to validate and test value-based strategic products for our customers. We work with expert colleagues to combine design, business, and engineering skills to achieve high value end-to-end customer experience in everything we deliver. Team members utilize standards and best practices to assure the usability, quality, maintainability, performance, and scalability of our products developed through collaborative agile processes.
Sopheon offers a flexible work from home environment that fosters productivity and balance to ensure goals can be achieved. If you have been striving to truly make a difference for world class customers with industry leading products, this is your opportunity.
Duties and Responsibilities
Working as a Team Member:
- Establish and meet individual, team, and project goals to strategically deliver the product roadmap with consistency and quality using Agile processes.
- Deliver consistent results aligned with the product roadmap expectations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally and with subject matter experts to deliver high-quality and high-value products.
- Resolve technical hurdles to provide optimal solutions that meet or exceed solution and delivery expectations.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Agile development methods, including metric definition, quality processes, and general software development practices.
Working as a QA Professional:
- Develop end to end test strategies, coordinate test plans, and author test cases based on functional and non-functional requirements.
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the business to operationalize a sustainable and effective testing pyramid.
- Report and manage story bugs, collaborating with the development team to address them in a timely and thorough manner.
- Work closely with product management to ensure the product aligns with the end-user vision.
- Provide feedback and recommendations on software usability and functionality.
- Engage in continuous automated testing activities throughout Agile development iterations.
- Support continuous automated testing by preparing environments, running tests, reporting issues, writing test cases, and potentially writing automated tests
Technical Skills and Experience - Required
- Usage of API/Request Testing tools (ex. Postman, Fiddler, etc.)
- Basic Database management and Querying (Postgre SQL Server Preferred)
- Writing and Using SQL Queries
- Backing up and Restoring Databases
- Test Data Management
- Usage with Katalon, Cypress, Selenium, or other automation frameworks/tools
- Working knowledge of scripting or programing languages (Python, JavaScript, PowerShell)
- Usage of Browser Development tools for troubleshooting and initial analysis
- Familiarity with DevOps CI/CD tools (such as AWS Code Pipelines, Bamboo, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Knowledge of version control tools like (Git preferred)
Other Technical Skills – Nice to have
- Application Profiling and Analysis, using tools like:
- DataDog
- Solarwinds DPA
- Experience with Load Testing tools (JMeter preferred)
- AWS Cloud Services
Personal/Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to thrive in a highly agile, collaborative team environment.
- Ability to learn quickly and apply new technologies to solve problems practically.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Self-starting individuals who take initiative to get things done.
- Can do attitude and approach.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, or related discipline.
- 4+ years’ experience in software quality assurance testing
Apply Now
To apply for a position on the Sopheon team, send CV or resume to: jobs@sopheon.com.
Sopheon is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability or national origin.
Some positions at Sopheon require consent to and successfully passing a background check prior to employment. Also, certain Sopheon customers operate in sensitive industries and require that individuals undergo background screening prior to being involved in a project. The screening process could include verification of identity, criminal record checks and drug abuse checks. If you join us, you may be required to undergo such additional screenings.
Inclusivity Statement:
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, domestic violence victim status, military status, or veteran's status.
