Job Description

Company Description

Alpine, an ITW company, is a leading provider of building component software, equipment, and the industry’s best service to truss manufacturers.  Partnering with our customers, we help to improve their businesses and make them more productive.  We are also a leader in delivering software solutions to homebuilders to increase productivity and profitability.  

ITW offers its employees a path for advancement, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help employees care for themselves, their families, and their futures.  

Alpine is seeking a  Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Grand Prairie office.  In this role, you'll join an Agile team responsible for creating software features within Alpine’s suite of software products. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will work with their team and across teams to design and implement testing procedures and processes including development of testing strategies and creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and documentation. This role is responsible for overall quality of our software products.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead creation of testing strategies, standards, and test plans for our software products and features
• Create and update test plans, test cases as well as other test assets such as data validation scripts and test data for new and existing software products and features
• Evaluate and execute test plans and test cases and perform exploratory testing to identify any issues or defects and to ensure overall quality of the software releases
• Document issues and defects in JIRA with all details and ensure timely communication to the product owners, development teams, and stakeholders
• Aid in gathering and documenting requirements in JIRA in the form of Agile Epics, User Stories, and tasks
• Participate in design and peer review sessions of technical solutions and related code

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher preferably in Computer Science or Engineering related fields
• 6+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer or similar role
• Working knowledge and expertise of the Agile development methodology using Scrum or Kanban
• Demonstrated experience leading QA strategy and establishing quality best practices and procedures
• Proficient using testing tools such as Selenium, Zephyr, TestRail, Microfocus, Microsoft Visual Studio, and/or TestComplete
• Familiarity with DBMS tools such as Microsoft SQL Server and data formats such as XML and JSON
• Expert in manual and automated testing strategies such as unit testing, functional testing, end-to-end testing, acceptance testing, and performance testing, and when to apply various strategies
• Excellent problem solving and strong analytical skills

Additional Information

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, hear, reach with hands and arms and regularly required to walk.  Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

ITW is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues’ unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential. 

As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.  

Job Tags

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