QA Engineer II

Title:QA Engineer II
ID:TEC00027332

Description

QA Engineer II

Governance, Risk & Compliance is a fast-growing Thomson Reuters business. It focuses on connecting our customers' business to the ever ever-changing regulatory environment, with client groups including compliance, audit, legal and risk functions in financial services, law firms, accounting firms, regulators, insurance, energy and other industries undergoing regulatory change. The global business has over 1250 employees located in major locations across 15 countries, including London, New York, Washington DC, Minnesota, Dubai, Cape Town, Penang, Singapore and Sydney. Industry expectations are that governance, risk and compliance market will grow rapidly worldwide over the next few years, and this business unit positions Thomson Reuters very strongly to take advantage of these increasing opportunities. The business is expected to grow at double digits over the next 5 years.

The Governance, Risk & Compliance unit works with teams across Thomson Reuters to leverage the full capabilities of the business.

Purpose of the role - how it adds value
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a contract Quality Assurance Engineer to join our test team, engaging in various forms of testing, including automated BDD testing, performance testing, soak testing, manual acceptance testing, etc.

You will be passionate about quality with a keen eye for detail and knowledge of structured testing processes. You will work directly with product managers, project managers, development team leaders and other testers to ensure that all develop software meets the agreed business requirements and standards of quality, with regards to metrics such as bug rates, performance, etc.

You will be able to work on your own initiative and lead the testing for individual projects from creation of user stories through to pre-release QA sign off.

Main responsibilities of the job
- Undertaking all forms of functional and non-functional testing
- Ownership of testing for individual projects including
- Creating Test Plans
- Creating test cases, both manual and automated
- Organising test cases for project and product regression testing
- Test coverage and status reporting
- Test Summary reports for final QA sign off
- Co-ordinating testing activities of yourself and others
- Working within agile development teams with a BDD approach and supporting the developers to quality assure developments early
- Utilise development skills, data manipulation skills and Scripting skills to engineer technical, repeatable tests
- Report on testing progress and strategy and provide interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications

Critical Competencies: skills and abilities required for the role
- Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for functional and non-functional requirements
- Experience of automated test Scripting and processes
- Experience of BDD test approach using Cucumber as tool to facilitate
- Load Testing
- SQL
Experience: relevant experience for the role
- Ideally degree Educated (2.1 at least) in an engineering, scientific or technical discipline
- You will have hands-on development experience, ideally exposed to all parts of the software development life cycle.
- Experience working in agile teams with a BDD approach
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams
- Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for user stories and development tasks.

Technical Knowledge:
- Test case automation using Cucumber test automation tool and Gherkin Scripting language
- Open source testing frameworks, including JMeter, FIT, Selenium, QTP
- Solid understanding of how to manufacture and manage test data in an enterprise-class development environment
- Familiarity with development build environment (eg Hudson, Linux, Maven, SVN, Github, Tomcat)
- Understanding of both Black Box and White Box test approaches.
- Desirable:
- JIRA
- Javascript

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

Job: Technology Development
Primary Location: Eagan, MN, US
Other Locations:
Organization: F&R GRC Technology Operations
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level:
Job Type: Standard
Shift:
Travel: No