QA Engineer - Crescens Inc.

Alpharetta, GA

Job title: QA Engineer
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Duration: 6+ Months
Type: contract to hire

Job Description:

Utilization of business, functional and/or technical expertise is needed to effectively develop and execute the test strategy and planning activities.
Work with multiple programs/systems on projects of moderate complexity and serve as a project team member.
Develop and execute formal test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications.
Lead and participates in test planning and quality review sessions.
Oversee the writing of test cases/scripts. Testing may include application, network, system, regression, and user acceptance testing.
Participate in daily calls as needed for appropriate hand on testing.
Perform testing activities including planning, design, scripting, execution, debugging, and reporting tasks.
Monitor and execute automation test activities for large sized projects.
Work with Technical and Business groups to define the scope of testing required.
Research new tools and testing approaches and execute upon/monitoring the implementation of such items.
Posttest execution activities include error debugging, reporting needs and internal and external communications.

Required Skills:

9+ years of related technical experience.
Extensive knowledge of information systems elements (hardware, software, and network) and their application to business functions/processes.
Knowledge of testing tools, database concepts and MS Office.
Experience working with Postman and JMeter.
Firm understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and methodologies such as Agile /Scrum.
Hands on experience testing APIs, RESTful/JSON web services.
Must be informed and cognizant of the key processes in the business and the business rules that impact the development and/or implementation of information systems.
Able to drive continuous improvement through all processes, including but not limited to team standards, test planning, resourcing, and test execution, as well as debugging, metric collection, and reporting.
Financial services experience.

Desired:

Merchant Payment Processing – authorizations at either point-of-sale or Card-Not-Present (eCommerce/digital), clearing & settlement systems, merchant on-boarding, merchant reporting, fraud/security analytics.
Payment Processing for Financial Institutions, specifically for debit cards, loans and/or credit card systems (new accounts, plastics, letters, notifications, preferences, parameter controls, payments, sales, account updates, memos, rewards, fraud, statements, collections, authorizations, chargebacks/retrievals, merchants, settlement, etc.)
Experience with payment industry applications

Education:

Source : Crescens Inc.