The QA Software Engineer collaborates with teams to design, develop, and maintain software applications, automating deployment, writing tests, and providing technical support.
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Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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Job Purpose and Impact
- The QA Software Engineer maintains and partners to design and develop software applications and systems. With limited supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to implement new software features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing software to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging moderately complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with software engineering team members.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Partners to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Applies internal software deployment platform, methodologies and tools to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains moderately complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Makes suggestions for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Drafts and maintains comprehensive documentation for moderately complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for moderately complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
- Advanced English Level
Preferred Qualifications
- UI automation using Selenium and/or Cypress
- Unit/integration testing with at least one of: Jasmine, Karma, JUnit, Spring Test
- Software development experience, preferably with Java, Python, or React
Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.
Top Skills
Cypress
Jasmine
Java
Junit
Karma
Python
React
Selenium
Spring Test
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