Description
Position S ummary

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer work s within NWEA's Product Engineering ( PE ) Department to ensure the productivity, reliability and accuracy of the systems and data used within the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) computerized testing and reporting applications. This position review s requirements and specifications, create s test plans and design s detailed test specifications that effectively evaluate MAP's very complex system of applications, interfaces and databases.

PE projects operate under tight and critical deadlines. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer must be able to develop and execute test plans to ensure products meet requirements, design specifications, and quality standards .

Responsibilities

• Communicate plans, status, and issues to lead QA engineers and managers
• Create test plans and coordinate their review
• Create, document and execute test cases to provide coverage of project requirements
• Perform smoke tests, regression, functional, and automated tests
• Designs, implements, and maintains the automation infrastructure that can be leveraged by other staff
• Increase script coverage using the established automation infrastructures and framework
• Provide reports on the progress of test development and test execution, including requireme nts coverage and defect metrics
• Work with Systems Engineering , offshore engineers and DBAs to ensure that test environments are available and appropriately configured and populated with test data
• Analyze the results of testing and submit defect reports
• Review system and operational documentation
• Effectively integrate the quality assurance engineering and analysis functions on all projects
• Contribute to tools evaluation and selection for quality assessment to maintain continuous improvement efforts
• Create and maintain documentation for quality assurance procedures
• Assess the quality of application development projects
• Test new programs, tools and techniques for acceptability, usability, and performance as documented; make recommendations as necessary
• Evaluate processes and coordinate with others to provide recommendations for standards, guidelines and procedures

• Review the quality of unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing and user testing

• Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the organization

Skills and A bilities

• Demonstrated ability to follow through with all tasks, promises, and commitments
• Ability to take the point of view of the student, proctor and partner
• Ability to provide estimates of testing effort based on requirements and solution information
• Ability to test multi-tier, web-based applications
• Ability to perform SQL queries (data testing directly against the database) on various database servers (especially MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge common coding languages used for test automation such as Java, Python, C#, C++, HTML
• Demonstrated ability to implement and maintain an automation infrastructure used by other testers.
• Ability to test on a variety of operating systems, includ ing Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX
• Technical aptitude to develop skills using available tools and software for the purpose of testing
• Ability to u se test automation tools like Selenium and J M eter
• Ability to execute performance/load/stress tests with both web and windows client applications is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a wide range of individuals
• Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and recommend improvements

Competencies

• Instill trust : gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Communicate effectively : develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Customer focus : build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Drive results : consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances

Education and E xperience

• Minimum B.S. degree in computer science or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Minimum five years quality assurance experience including at least two years testing multi-tier, web-based applications
• Experience with critical data validation including accuracy of formulae and algorithms used in the processing and reporting of stored data

• Experience reviewing requirements for testability and clarity
• Experience working with offshore teams

About Us
NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that precisely measure growth and proficiency-and provide timely data to help tailor instruction. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K-12 assessments, including our flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™; our progress monitoring and skills mastery tool, MAP® Skills™; and our reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. Educators trust our professional learning offerings to accelerate student learning and our research to support assessment validity and data interpretation. More than 11 million students in 146 countries use our solutions to support their learning and growth each year.
What We Can Offer You

At NWEA we not only offer a competitive base salary, we offer a 15% contribution of eligible employees' base salary to a defined contribution 403(b) retirement savings plan; career development opportunities; an awesome work culture and environment; we also offer industry leading benefits and perks that are focused on supporting our employees' holistic wellbeing. To learn more about what we can offer more, click here.
NWEA strives to make diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices the center of our work. Our organization's mission, Partnering to Help All Kids Learn, is the foundation for our DEIA commitment as we work to reflect, value, and support the educators, students, colleagues, and communities we serve. We seek to empower and engage all stakeholders in the research, services, solutions, and products we provide, our organizational culture, and the partnerships we establish with schools, districts, states, and countries.

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