Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Pre-release review and analyze system specifications to ensure that product meets design specifications and standards.

• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirements.

• Develop use cases for functional testing from product requirements.

• Perform functional testing of individual software changes and updates.

• Develop, execute, and maintain regression tests for critical product components.

• Evaluate product code according to specifications.

• Create logs to document testing phases and defects.

• Report bugs and errors to Engineering Teams.

• Help troubleshoot issues.

• Post-release, receive software defects escalated from Level 2 technical support, isolate cause of issues, and update quality assurance practices and methodology accordingly.

• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Conducts work assignments of increasing complexity, under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgment.

• Offers valuable QA insight to developers and product managers during Scrum meetings with regards to common failures and dependencies.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The list below is representative of the qualifications, skills, and abilities required and preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education training and work-related experience.

• 3+ years of years of work-related experience specifically in manual software testing.

• Experience with manual API testing through Postman.

• Experience and/or working knowledge with automated testing tools (Selenium, etc.).

• Experience with cross-browser testing.

• Experience with payroll, HR, and/or accounting systems.

• Experience testing Windows applications.

• Ability to assist Level 2 technical support with hard to replicate and/or hard to research items escalated by internal and external users.

• Strong Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc) skills.

• Experience testing Web-based and Mobile applications.

• Experience with test management tools and knowledge in automated testing tools.

• Experience in development methodologies and types of testing (e.g., Functional, System Integration, Regression etc.).

• High level knowledge of test automation technology and its applications.

• Experience writing code in a scripting or programming language.

• Knowledge of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and/or Test Driven Development (TDD) preferred.

• Knowledge with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies preferred.

• Experience with software and systems preferred.

• Strong client centric focus.

• Strong ability to manage multiple projects and tasks and meet deadlines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong planning and organizing skills and attention to details.

• Ability to work with people and work as part of a team.

• Experience with Agile teams preferred.

• Must be able to work in an environment in which constant deadlines exist.

• Must be able to work the hours necessary to successfully perform in this position.

• Must understand all company guidelines, procedures, and workflow.

• Must be willing to embrace the APS culture which includes respect, communication, team work, client focus, continuous change, training and other learning opportunities.

• A big nice to have: Experience with mobile automated testing tools like Detox, Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, etc.