Job Summary

The QA Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing testing activities in collaboration with clients for Pega projects. You will help define, promote, and ensure adherence to quality assurance deliverables such as test approach planning, defect management, risk/complexity analysis, regression test maintenance, acceptance test collaboration and product delivery. Your ultimate goal is to ensure the highest quality for a project given the requirements, schedule, and technologies.

We view our QA team members as much more than simply testers! You will help identify and analyze business requirements and how they will affect an application with regards to regressions, usability, and other requirements that may need to change or adapt - ultimately leading to the best application for its users.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback to help ensure the best possible software application.
• Create and execute detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases that form the strategy for ensuring the highest quality for a project given its unique needs and constraints.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Design, develop, and execute automation scripts using open source tools.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Liaise with internal teams to identify system requirements.
• Monitor debugging process results.
• Track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.

Qualifications and Skills (need minimum of 3 years in QA or BA discipline for consideration)

• Reliable Work History Demonstrating the following is ideal:
  • Creating workable testing solutions to business problems
  • Analyzing data and workflows to determine test scenario design to contain risk
  • Possessing a technical aptitude to demonstrate confidence to IT and business users
  • Performing functional/performance/regression/acceptance testing of software applications
  • Gathering requirements or working with Product owners to groom requirements via Use Cases
  • Performing test planning, test case design techniques, and results analysis methods
  • Being an effective communicator with other disciplines (e.g., Development, Project Management, Hoverstate Clients)
  • Being a QA evangelist in an Agile or DevOps methodology
  • Taking initiative: must drive reliability through proactive approaches in looking for code deficiencies, missed scope, or ambiguous requirements
  • Showing leadership: must take responsibility as the face for QA for assigned projects
  • Supporting the Client: must learn product under test at the architectural level and analyze client business process flows
  • Excellent communication abilities
• Preferred Practice with:
  • Selenium webDriver
  • Java or Javascript
  • Test automation frameworks
  • Designing test solutions through Behavioral Driven Development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or a related field a plus

Predictive Index

Please follow the link below to take the behavioral assessment from Predictive Index as part of the interview process at Hoverstate.

https://assessment.predictiveindex.com/01S/77da1d96-5ea7-481c-ab06-efa8ae996e2d?type=candidateba

What Hoverstate Offers

Pay | competitive compensation package

Health | generous healthcare benefits

PTO | unlimited vacation, all holidays, sick and bereavement leave

401K | company contributions

Relocation | relocation assistance

Continuing Education | yearly stipend for your choice of ongoing education, conference attendance, training or certification

Growth | join Hoverstate for the opportunity to join a rapidly growing, well-established business that offers accelerated recognition and rewards, where you’ll see your contributions and great ideas directly impact our business

Environment | fun, friendly, collaborative, innovative, fast, yet professional!

Networking | regular, personal interaction with the Hoverstate senior leadership team and senior leadership of our clients.

Company Overview

Hoverstate is a Digital Consultancy with offices in California (Los Angeles), Texas (Lubbock), Utah (Lehi) and Italy (Turin) specializing in Health and Life Sciences. We are a digital consultancy specializing in: delivering customer-centric transformation, innovative digital products, forward-thinking technology strategies, leveraging compliant technologies, developing rock-solid code, testing our products with a robust QA team/automation, then backing it all with marketing support. If there is a problem to be solved in the digital space, Hoverstate can solve it.

Since 2008, Hoverstate has counted world-renowned health insurance and life sciences companies among our roster of clients. Our focused expertise keeps our clients on top of changes in policy, privacy rules and usability for their customers. Our mission is to continually create best-in-class user experiences through our robust design and testing practices, backed by some pretty impressive feats of technology, to bring this slow-to-innovate sector into the 21st century.

Hoverstate + Pega: A Long History. Hoverstate has been a Certified Pega partner since 2013. Every day we leverage Pega’s adaptable architecture to deliver applications to our clients in record time while creating outstanding user experiences with meaningful business results. Thanks to our extensive experience, and proven ability to execute Pega projects the "Pega Way", we were chosen as one of the first Pega Ventures funded partners in 2017. That means we have the full backing and endorsement of Pegasystems.