QA Engineer

QA Engineer

Job Summary

As a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst with University Faculty Information & Support, you will work directly with our software development team to help ensure the quality of our web-based software. You will be tasked with feature-testing software as we deploy new features and improvements to our software. You will also be responsible for maintaining a suite of regression tests that can be run periodically to ensure the overall stability of our system. You will also be working in an agile environment where communication and teamwork is a key to success while working directly with teammates to catch any unexpected results that may exist. You will also work with our QA team to develop and maintain test plans, smoke test after deployments, test API endpoints, work with basic SQL in a database environment, and help run test automation.

University Faculty Information & Support provides administrative applications and support to leadership across all colleges at the University of Utah including University of Utah Health Academics (non-clinical). Our information systems and integration with other institutional data sources allow us to provide comprehensive management of financial data, financial processes, faculty data and faculty-centric processes in support of the various missions of the university.

Our generous University staff benefits package includes but is not limited to: health care and dental plan options, tuition reduction, UTA pass (Bus, TRAX, & FrontRunner), paid holidays, paid leave time, employer and employee paid retirement, and more!

Responsibilities

• Develops, publishes, and implements test plans across multiple cloud-based application.
• Performs test plans and communicates results.
• Helps maintain quality assurance standards including bug reporting.
• Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics and analyses risks.
• Familiarity with test automation.

Disclaimer This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

Comments
Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision; typically reports to a manager. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.


Minimum Qualifications
Requires a bachelor's degree in a related area or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience) and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences
Department Specific Qualifications

• Work experience in software development
• Ability to troubleshoot features on a technical level
• Must have a working knowledge of current quality assurance methodologies
• Ability to be adaptable to current needs
• Proven experience with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Department Specific Preferences

• Test Automation experience
• Experience with agile environment / Jira
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player

Special Instructions


Requisition Number: PRN39850B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary: This position is fully remote. Incumbent must be available during the team core hours of 10:00 am - 3:00 pm MT.
Department: 01828 - Univ Faculty Info & Support
Location: Other
Pay Rate Range: $50,000 - 55,000/annually
Close Date: 9/20/2024
Open Until Filled: Yes

To apply, visit https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/171422


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