Note:
Location: Chicago, IL, ( onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.)
C2C: Yes
Duration: Long Term
Visa: Any

Positions Contributions to Work Group:
Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications.
Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.
Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.
Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed
Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Client management from time to time.

Typical task breakdown:
Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work.
Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products.
Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing
Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases
Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution.
Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed
Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Client management from time to time..

Interaction with team:
Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team. Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.

Work environment:
Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.

Education & Experience Required:
Degree with 10+ years experience
Master degree with 8+ years experience

Required Technical Skills
5 years or more of software testing experience (manual or automation) or at least 3 years of experience with masters degree in computer science or related field.
3 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience
3 years or more of prior either functional or object- oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like C++, Java or Python (preferably Java)
Strong development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java/Junit, Python, Cucumber, JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks

Desired Skills
Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results
Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI)
, Continuous Delivery (CD)
, of systems, infrastructure, and test framework.
End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms
Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data
Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs)
The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases
Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties
Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired
Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus
Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Jenkins, Git)
At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices.
Understanding of a micro service Architecture
Experience load and performance testing

Required Soft Skills
Strong documentation skills
Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
Pro-active, flexible and creative
Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects, DO NOT submit them.