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

.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

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