QA Engineer

Job Title/Role: QA Engineer II Job Family Issue Date Department: Product Development Job Summary/Objective Supports MRI’s Product Development departments through the design and creation of manual tests to validate the functionality and performance of MRI products. Applies Agile principles to the development of high-quality applications and software solutions. Collaborates with product owners, software engineers and other areas to create well defined user stories and acceptance criteria. Works with teams to determine test methods, tools, and plans for efficient and effective quality processes. Identifies components to automate testing. Identifies, reports and tracks defects and testing progress. Successful QA Engineer need to have strong technical, organizational, excellent Verbal and written skill. Key Responsibilities & Duties • Assists in the development of user stories and acceptance criteria within an Agile team. • Participates in Agile sprint planning meetings, daily stand ups and backlog refinement. Verifies that iterations and sprints are working as designed and provides approval. • Analyzes test results for accuracy and compliance; finds root cause of problems and recognizes those that recur and contributes to resolution process providing updates to appropriate staff and management. • Logs issues and system bugs with appropriate detail; sets appropriate severity level. • Assists team in finding software solutions and writes database statements to assist in solution implementation. • Works closely with developers on the Agile team (and with product owners) to devise test cases and test plans that ensure comprehensive coverage of positive and negative test cases against user story requirements. • Ensures appropriate test coverage of the application, clearly documents, and understands which features are covered by manual tests and which are covered by automated tests. • Manages acceptance criteria, maintains documentation, user accounts and test data used by the team. • Coordinates efforts with software engineers to identify performance opportunities, as well as to ensure testability issues are addressed during design lifecycle. • Writes SQL statements to execute backend testing for various applications. • Executes manual testing