Senior QA Engineer - Full Remote - Contractor in Usd

Category: IT Services Location: For an international organization in Europa, we are urgently looking for a REMOTE QA Engineer with ISTQB Foundation certification or similar. Candidates need to be willing to work European office hours and need to be fluent in English. All positions are long-term. This position is open for contractors and employees. **Tasks and responsibilities:** **​** * Acts as a QA focal point to development teams when communicating with Quality Assurance Team members; * Provides support for QA and related services and help to expand and improve the effectiveness of these services; * Creates, executes, automates, and manages test cases and test plans for existing and developed systems; * Supports software development process and implementation of new software releases by testing computer application systems and programs, using team established standards for IT technologies and tools; * Participates in the specification, design, automation and support of computer application systems from a quality assurance perspective; * Drafts technical documentation for deployed computer application systems in the form of test cases and user stories; * Maintains test and functional specifications for computer application systems, programs and procedures developed and/or modified; * Drafts correspondence, communications and prepares team contributions for a variety of periodic reports; * Keeps abreast of developments in the field of quality assurance and proposes new acquisitions as appropriate; * Performs other work-related duties as assigned. **Profile:** * Bachelor or Master degree; * International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation certification or similar certification is required. Any relevant additional QA certifications are desirable; * +3 years of providing software quality assurance for medium-large sized development teams is required; * +3 years of experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks or designing automated testing suites is required; * +3 years of experience with regular release testing and clearance using Agile development approaches such as SCRUM is required; * +3 years of experience with managing test code and definitions using Software Configuration Management and integrating testing and clearance processes with build tools such as Azure DevOps Services is required. * +1 year of git source control including branching and processing of pull requests is required; * +3 years of experience with developing UI test automation with Selenium using C#/.NET is required; * +3 years in servicing geo/time zone distributed dev teams, QA team members, and clients is required; * Daily, hands-on practical experience with writing test cases using Gherkin syntax is desirable; * Daily, hands-on practical experience with testing software for Prince2 based projects is desirable; * Experience in testing applications hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is desirable; * Fluent in English; **Location:** Remote; **Salary/Day price:** Depending on experience; **Interested:** Please send your resume to Details Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)