QA Engineer - Berkeley Heights, NJ

Job Title: QA Engineer
Job Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Employment Type: C2H
Duration: 6 months +

No third party C2C

Key Technology : QTP/UFT, JMeter, Selenium Web Driver/TOSCA

Job Responsibilities:

• Utilization of business, functional and/or technical expertise is needed to effectively develop and execute the test strategy and planning activities.
• Work with multiple programs/systems on projects of moderate complexity and serve as a project team member.
• Develop and execute formal test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications.
• Lead and participates in test planning and quality review sessions.
• Oversee the writing of test cases/scripts. Testing may include application, network, system, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Participate in daily calls as needed for appropriate hand on testing.
• Perform testing activities including planning, design, scripting, execution, debugging, and reporting tasks.
• Monitor and execute automation test activities for large sized projects.
• Work with Technical and Business groups to define the scope of testing required.
• Research new tools and testing approaches and execute upon/monitoring the implementation of such items.
• Post test execution activities include error debugging, reporting needs and internal and external communications.

Skills and Experience Required:
Required

• 9+ years of related technical experience.
• Extensive knowledge of information systems elements (hardware, software, and network) and their application to business functions/processes.
• Knowledge of testing tools, database concepts and MS Office.
• Experience working with Postman and JMeter.
• Firm understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and methodologies such as Agile /Scrum.
• Hands on experience testing APIs, RESTful/JSON web services.
• Must be informed and cognizant of the key processes in the business and the business rules that impact the development and/or implementation of information systems.
• Able to drive continuous improvement through all processes, including but not limited to team standards, test planning, resourcing, and test execution, as well as debugging, metric collection, and reporting.
• Financial services experience.

Desired:

• Merchant Payment Processing authorizations at either point-of-sale or Card-Not-Present (eCommerce/digital), clearing & settlement systems, merchant on-boarding, merchant reporting, fraud/security analytics.
• Payment Processing for Financial Institutions, specifically for debit cards, loans and/or credit card systems (new accounts, plastics, letters, notifications, preferences, parameter controls, payments, sales, account updates, memos, rewards, fraud, statements, collections, authorizations, chargebacks/retrievals, merchants, settlement, etc.)
• Experience with payment industry applications

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience and/or Certifications.