Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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What you'll do:

• Establish QA standards, policies, and procedures for all programs.
• Meeting with the IT / Business stakeholders to discuss requirements and ensure software meets technical specifications.
• You will be performing multiple types of testing (System, Integration, Data Migration, End to End, Regression, Exploratory) on various platforms (Web Apps, Cloud-Based Apps, Databases and APIs).
• Identifying software testing risks, weaknesses, and target areas of improvement.
• Participation in agile ceremonies including sprint design, planning, grooming and demo practices.
• Demonstrate advanced programming skills, working in one or many automation harness solutions, creating automation frameworks and implementing best practices.
• Designing and executing automation scripts and manual test cases.
• Report on quality metrics such as manual test coverage, test completion, automation execution time, automation pass/ fail rates, automation coverage, and automation ROI.
• Examine code and execution of code in various environments.
• Ensure that security requirements and best practices have been incorporated into system functional design specifications.
• Assess software systems to ensure that security development best practices have been followed, including ethical hacking techniques with proper notification and authorization.
• Ensure that software systems comply with the IT Security Policy in all respects, including user authentication and session expiration requirements.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years' experience as a QA engineer with expertise in planning, designing and execution of automated and manual testing activities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a similar field.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of and experience with business/systems analysis and development of functional system specifications.
• Detailed knowledge of software application testing standards and best practices
• Hands-on experience with automation tools is required-preferably with Playwright.
• Demonstrated advanced programming skills in Typescript and JavaScript.
• Intermediate to advanced experience creating automation frameworks from scratch and implementing best practices.
• Experienced in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Experienced in designing, creating, and executing API tests using tools like Postman.
• Strong understanding of data integrity standards.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of React.js.
• Strong SQL Query experience.
• MySQL experience a big plus.
• Amazon Web Services experience a big plus.
• Strong experience using Azure DevOps.
• Ability to work in a small, dynamic programming team in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem recognition and prioritization skills.
• Superior work ethics and sense of pride and ownership in completing assigned projects thoroughly and in compliance with the requirements.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams including developers, product owners, and business analysts.
• Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation