Senior Software Quality Engineer (Contractor)

You will

• Review requirements and seek clarification around any ambiguities with a focus on customer impact and business goals. Leverage input from product stakeholders to determine if requirements and solution meet those needs
• Understand the implications of design decisions and adjust testing approach based on the impact and risk in the short and long-term
• Partner with product owners and senior developers to understand and design tests around any non-functional system requirements in areas such as data retention, performance, and security
• Define and deliver well-scoped test plans for projects. May include working in the role of a project quality lead across several teams to ensure all pieces of a combined, larger functionality meet project goals
• Mentor less-experienced team members by providing guidance as well as modeling solid quality practices and professional behavior
• Consistently deliver clear, flexible, reusable, and efficient manual and automated tests with thoughtful decisions when choosing one over the other
• Proactively identify, gain alignment, and implement improvements to current testing practices and tools.
• Create defects with clear and complete steps to reproduce. Perform initial investigation using server logs, browser tools, and other resources available – include details upon submission. Own and drive defects to resolution
• Participate in code reviews. Provide thoughtful and actionable feedback. Respond to feedback with openness and implement beneficial changes
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation for high priority incidents and address issues with appropriate level of urgency
• Drive discussions with manager about career growth. Actively seek opportunities to grow professional skillset
• Model and promote Protolabs’ defined quality best-practices and standards as well as internal team goals
• Perform additional tasks as assigned

What it takes

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, completion of a qualified bootcamp, or equivalent experience

Tooling and languages:

• .NET frameworks, C#, Azure DevOps, Git, SQL Server, test repositories, automation frameworks
• Experience working with agile, SAFe, or scum methodologies and processes
• 7+ years of experience in software testing or development with 5 of those years including writing and maintaining automated tests
• Experience working with event-driven services and web service testing

Hands-on experience with the following activities:

• Software testing and defect identification
• Writing manual and automated tests
• Use of test and defect management systems
• Use of code version control systems
• Writing test code in object-oriented languages
• Writing SQL queries
• Use of integrated development environments
• Debugging and troubleshooting issues

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Understanding of software development and testing practices and methodologies. Includes understanding of when to use manual or automated testing
• Capable of reading and navigating functions and classes/modules
• Understanding of web services, service-oriented and microservice architectures, and eventdriven systems
• Strong sense of accountability. Take ownership of assigned work, seek clarification or guidance when needed, and deliver on time
• Ability to independently prioritize tasks appropriately based on impact and delivery dates
• Ability to learn from mistakes and seek to minimize risk of recurrence without dwelling on them
• Encourage feedback from peers and managers. Act upon it accordingly by looking at both strengths and growth areas. Ability to also provide thoughtful and effective feedback
• Share ideas to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the team. Encourage others to do the same by fostering an environment of collaboration and innovation
• Engage in valuable, open, exchanges of differing ideas through productive conflict
• Communicate proactively, forthrightly, and concisely with the ability to adapt messaging to meet the needs of various stakeholders