Position Summary:
Litera is looking for a QA Engineer to drive customer confidence by assuring the quality of software products by engineering QA efficiencies in practice, through process, and with effective tools/techniques.
Who You Are:
- Accountable
- Driven
- Energetic
- Proactive
- Smart
Key Responsibilities:Quality Assurance
- Works with team members to ensure adequate test coverage and discuss any potential risk
- Adheres to standard operating procedures to ensure consistency in the way we test software
- Contributes to agile planning by establishing tasks and forecasts for work to be performed
- Asks the right questions at the right time to reduce the introduction of quality risk
Quality Control
- Writes and executes test cases that probe system limits in terms of function and performance
- Identifies/resolves software inconsistencies, ambiguities and defects during implementation
- Considers dependencies in test case design and execution
- Supports and is accountable for timely releases and adherence to release activities
Test Case Development (automation)
- Designs, codes, and documents automated test cases within a defined framework
- Develops software interfaces between the system under test and the automation framework
- Produces high quality test automation code
- Translates existing manual regression test cases into automated tests
- Assure automated regression test cases are integrated and passing in a nightly build process
- Contributes to merge up/down through development process
Team Member
- Active member of a scrum team that solves complex challenges and builds working software
- Works together with Product Owner to break down user stories into small functional slices
- Maintains an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness
- Practices positive interactions - leans on encouragement in place of judgment
- Impresses responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks
- Acts in the interest of the overall team
- Actively works on broadening or adding a skill
Qualifications:
- 1-3 years of application testing experience
- 1-3 years of developing automated tests and frameworks
- Knowledge of test cases design techniques like boundary, decision tables, and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) / TDD (Test Driven Development)
- Excellent knowledge of test automation methodologies, best practices (i.e. Page Object Model)
- Experience with implementing a test automation framework/tools (i.e. Selenium, Robot, Nightwatch)
- Experience building tests / testing software with tools that include C#/Python/Java
- Experience with deployment tools, build/release automation and Continuous Delivery
- Experience with large data set creation, back-end testing (SQL), being able to validate information as it flows throughout the system
- Exposure to Azure, Amazon AWS, and/or other cloud platforms preferred
- Working collaboratively with team members in a dynamic environment
- Passion and drive for automation and sound engineering practice
Who We Are:
Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving over 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recently selected for Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees have the ability to make a direct impact on the future of the company while enjoying random ice cream and bagel parties, cold brew on tap, and an occasional ping pong match.