Hybrid Senior QA Engineer – Manual, Automation

at Gartner

• Job title: Senior QA Engineer – Manual, Automation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $72,000 - $100,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, JavaScript, Jenkins, JMeter, JUnit, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Irving, United States

About the role

• Senior QA Engineer working on test plans and automation of test cases at Gartner. Focused on ensuring quality and reliability of digital solutions in a team-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans, strategies and ensure the development & execution of test cases meet project goals and QA standards.
• Lead functional testing of new requirements and enhancements of applications.
• Maintenance of regression test suite and driving the test execution.
• Identify, track, and prioritize defects with right severities; work collaboratively with technical teams to resolve issues swiftly and effectively.
• Ensure the overall quality, reliability, and performance of products by managing the design, execution, and reporting of testing activities, including functional and non-functional testing like performance, DB and API testing.
• Ensure delivery against Quality Engineering department goals and objectives, meeting commitments.
• Provide clear and detailed status, including metrics, assess and mitigate risks to ensure timely delivery of excellent quality.
• Implement best practices, including a variety of different testing protocols, tools, and metrics.
• Drive innovation and integration of modern technologies into frameworks and activities in the software test architecture to increase the performance and efficiency of the Quality Engineering department.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in software testing (websites and/or mobile applications).
• Strong qualitative and quantitative critical thinking skills.
• 5+ years of experience in QA, handling all testing activities independently.
• Experience implementing and executing defined standards for manual and automated testing.
• Experience leading automation scripting and expertise in JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation tool such as Playwright.
• Experience in estimation, prioritization, and planning/coordination of QA activities in a Scrum environment.
• Proficiency optimizing test case management and defect management software and processes, including JIRA.
• Solid experience in SQL queries and database testing.
• Strong attention to details, end-user quality, and usability.
• Experience in developing/maintaining Test automation frameworks.
• Experience in integrating test suites with tools in the DevOps/CICD pipelines - GIT, Jenkins, etc.
• Hands on experience in JUnit, TestNG, JMeter, Cucumber, Appium, Postman is good to have.
• Hands on exposure to AI driven testing.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery (DR) testing.
• Hands on experience with cloud service platforms is a plus (Azure or AWS).

Benefits

• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.