QA Analyst IV (contract) LOOKING FOR QA Analyst IV (contract) JOB AT Minneapolis, MN

Department Overview:

The Payments Experience team is seeking a highly creative quality engineer who is a skilled communicator and leader. We have complex demands, so this role is all about teamwork and pushing each other to deliver a world class product. We are responsible for the payment component through which almost all payments flow on bestbuy.com as well as a variety of highly visible payment option integrations such as Apple, Zip, PayPal, and others. Because of this, not only is it critical to be skilled at working within our team, but driving solutions across teams is just as important.

Our applications feature integrations with services related to Pricing, Inventory, Fulfillment, Tax, 3rd-party payment, Incentives, Customer Data, and Order Management. The user experience includes web-based UIs (desktop and mobile) as well as native mobile applications for both iOS and Android.

Job Description:

This is a senior QA Engineer role, which will involve testing a variety of applications maintained by the Payments Experience team. These applications include desktop web views, mobile web views, as well as native experiences in the Best Buy mobile app. Testing will be primarily manual, but also involve writing automation test cases (web and mobile). All candidates should exhibit the following qualities:

• Strong technical communication skills.
• Creativity in anticipating and finding weaknesses/vulnerabilities in our products.
• Ability to work as a part of a team of engineers and build strong relationships across teams.
• Willingness to develop a deep understanding of complex business domains.
• Be a friendly part of a great group of people even in high-stress situations such as urgent incidents in production and projects with tight timelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and follow manual test plans.
• Create and follow automated test plans.
• Efficiently log and track defects in JIRA.
• Interact with multiple teams for integration testing and for test data needs.
• Attend Sprint Planning meetings and other related Agile testing activities.
• Participate in defining acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Document and summarize test results and report findings .
• Develop and provide testing metrics and reports for QA dashboards to effectively communicate test status to the test team and management.
• Help document and track key project milestones, overall project deliverables, and adhere to organizational quality standards.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of overall QA experience.
• QA automation experience or willingness to expand into automation testing in addition to manual testing.
• Experience in finding the root cause of issues by analyzing application logs in systems such as Splunk or Kibana.
• Experience testing front-end applications using browser developer tools to track network requests, inspect DOM elements and components, and monitor console errors.
• Comfort with back end testing through Postman or a similar tool.
• Experience in A/B or multivariant testing.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with E-Commerce applications.
• Proficiency using a web proxy such as Charles or Fiddler.
• Solid understanding of code branching strategies using Git or other SCM tool.
• Experience with mobile automation testing.
• Experience testing highly complex domains with 10+ integrations.