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Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country and we move America's workforce toward the future. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority and the success of our railroad is the result of our employees. Are you ready to join our team? SUMMARY OF DUTIES: The Lead Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer works on multiple programs/systems for multiple Amtrak business units. In this role, the Lead QA Engineer supports the review process of all requirements mapping to test cases, test plans and test results and is a key participant in the PMO Q-Gate process. They are involved in and often lead all phases of the QA process and the implementation of QA objectives. This includes the enforcement of current Amtrak QA processes including the monitoring and evaluation of requirement and test deliverables. The Lead QA Engineer leads and interacts with all members of the project team including architects, business analysts, system analysts, project managers, the development team and quality control team to assure successful development, testing and implementation of project requirements helping to ensure that projects meet Amtrak's quality deployment goals. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:- Develop comprehensive testing strategy and test cases for Next Gen POS (Point-of-Sale) new features and/or functions as they are developed
- Perform hands-on day-in-life regression testing of LSA (Lead Service Attendant) on Point-of-Sale device
- Perform thorough validation of E2E (End-to-End) test results, such as, Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Revenue Accounting
- Develop comprehensive testing strategy and test cases for Salesforce projects
- Works on projects of all levels of complexity within any of the IT development environments.
- Reviews formal test plans and documented test results.
- Review of project deliverables and produces the compliance checklist.
- Monitors, evaluates and makes recommendations on QA tasks within enterprise-wide processes such as Test Life Cycles, Change Management and Release Management.
- Responsible for reviewing the requirements and insuring they are mapped to test cases, test plans and test results.
- Coordinates with the DevOps and Release Management Teams.
- Responsible for adherence to the quality program.
- Assists in creating standard operating procedures and metrics based on best practices for the QA team. Identifies and proposes areas of improvement throughout the QA process.
- Adheres to and enforces QA processes.
- May serve in the following roles: automation testing, performance testing, front-end testing, back-end testing or end-to-end testing.
- Conducts investigations on identified technical and operational problems on installed networks, systems and products.
- Produces QA Root Cause Analysis document following problem investigation.
- May make recommendations regarding software defects and/or project timelines.
- Establishes liaison relationship with business partners and IT departments in order to provide process solutions to meet user needs.
- Prepares, maintains and reviews documentation on all QA phases.
- Provides consistent communication, mentoring and instruction to team members and less-experienced individuals.
- Verifies that documented system requirements have been met.
- Supports continued evolution of QA strategies and activities supporting best practices and quality deployments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or related field with 6+ years of work experience and or equivalent work experience
- 6-9 years of relevant work experience to satisfy education and experience requirements
- Strong knowledge of quality management
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in test automation development.
- Minimum of 4 years of Core Java development experience (Java, Core Java, JE22, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, Angular.JS).
- Experience in Test Driven Development, and/or test automation for DevOps is big plus.
- Experience in web development such as HTML, FPML, XML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Development/testing experience for mainframe and distributed systems. · Experience in Agile Scrum.
- Experience with at least one RDBMS such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase.
- Experience in the transportation industry, particularly with reservation systems IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) is a plus.
- Experience in Selenium is a plus.
- Basic knowledge of Linux, Unix.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and implementations.
- Requires strong knowledge of SCM tools (Git/GitHub/BitBucket), Test Automation Tools (Cucumber, Selenium, Jira), Config/Provisioning Tools (Jenkins/Salt/Ansible), Scripting Tools.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaborative skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization.
- Hands-on experience in Performance testing with expertise in Performance Tools (Jmeeter/SmartBear/LoadRunner).
- Programing experience in VB/VBA/VBScript or C#, .NET platform.
- Experience with Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Ability to comprehend business requirements, technical specifications and change management documentation in order to develop test plans.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing tools, QA methodologies and DevOps.
- Ability to identify technical and operational issues on installed networks, systems and products.
- Possesses strong attention to detail throughout the QA process.
- Familiarity with HP Quality Center test management software.
- Experience leading and managing a group of analysts
- Master's degree in a related discipline
- 8+ years relevant experience preferred
- Certification in ISTQB Advanced Test Automation Engineer and Cloud Technologies; AWS Certified Solution Architect, MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA), Cloud Certified Professional is a plus
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
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