Senior QA Engineer - FULL REMOTE - Contractor in USD

Category: IT Services Location: For an international organization in Europa, we are urgently looking for a REMOTE QA Engineer with ISTQB Foundation certification or similar. Candidates need to be willing to work European office hours and need to be fluent in English. All positions are long-term. This position is open for contractors and employees. Tasks and responsibilities: ​ • Acts as a QA focal point to development teams when communicating with Quality Assurance Team members; • Provides support for QA and related services and help to expand and improve the effectiveness of these services; • Creates, executes, automates, and manages test cases and test plans for existing and developed systems; • Supports software development process and implementation of new software releases by testing computer application systems and programs, using team established standards for IT technologies and tools; • Participates in the specification, design, automation and support of computer application systems from a quality assurance perspective; • Drafts technical documentation for deployed computer application systems in the form of test cases and user stories; • Maintains test and functional specifications for computer application systems, programs and procedures developed and/or modified; • Drafts correspondence, communications and prepares team contributions for a variety of periodic reports; • Keeps abreast of developments in the field of quality assurance and proposes new acquisitions as appropriate; • Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Profile: • Bachelor or Master degree; • International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation certification or similar certification is required. Any relevant additional QA certifications are desirable; • +3 years of providing software quality assurance for medium-large sized development teams is required; • +3 years of experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks or designing automated testing suites is required; • +3 years of experience with regular release testing and clearance using Agile development approaches such as SCRUM is required; • +3 years of experience with managing test code and definitions using Software Configuration Management and integrating testing and clearance processes with build tools such as Azure DevOps Services is required. • +1 year of git source control including branching and processing of pull requests is required; • +3 years of experience with developing UI test automation with Selenium using C#/.NET is required; • +3 years in servicing geo/time zone distributed dev teams, QA team members, and clients is required; • Daily, hands-on practical experience with writing test cases using Gherkin syntax is desirable; • Daily, hands-on practical experience with testing software for Prince2 based projects is desirable; • Experience in testing applications hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is desirable; • Fluent in English; Location: Remote; Salary/Day price: Depending on experience; Interested: Please send your resume to Details Originally posted on Himalayas QA-Engineer, Software-Testing, Automation-Testing, Quality-Assurance, Remote-QA-Engineer, Remote-Quality-Assurance-Engineer, Senior-QA-Engineering, Software-Quality-Engineer