Senior Quality Analyst

Cradlepoint is seeking a talented and dedicated Senior Quality Analyst to join our engineering team. In this challenging and fulfilling position, you will be crucial in ensuring the highest quality of our customer solutions throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). You will be responsible for planning and executing comprehensive quality assessment activities, designing robust test scenarios, and ensuring that all software components meet rigorous quality standards before delivery. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, hands-on testing expertise, and a commitment to continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and question requirements, corroborating their use against existing features and best practices to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Plan quality assessment activity for each change, meticulously ensuring its completion according to schedule and quality gates.
• Create and maintain suitable functional, integration, and regression test scenarios to validate solution integrity and prevent regressions.
• Liaise with business analysts, software architects, and developers to ensure the quality of solutions delivered and their associated artifacts are maintained at the highest standards.
• Assess project risks while planning and conducting quality checks, proactively identifying potential issues.
• Maintain up-to-date quality records for all projects and activities, ensuring clear traceability and reporting.
• Ensure potential software issues found are captured and followed up appropriately, minimizing downstream impact on development and delivery.
• Probe and verify both UI (User Interface) and Server/Backend processes to ensure end-to-end functionality and performance.
• Demonstrate strong ability in understanding the application through probing software code and design effective White Box test cases.
• Contribute to the review of Automation code of peers and ensure alignment to established technical standards and best practices.

Technical Requirements

• Proven Expertise in UI Functional testing.
• Proven Expertise in UI automation using Selenium or other industry-standard automation software.
• Mastery of Manual Testing methodologies, including Functional, End-to-End (E2E), System, Integration, and Regression testing.
• Hands-on Experience in Rest API testing.
• Hands-on Experience in Python programming for writing automation scripts using frameworks like Pytest/PyCharm.
• Expert in Continuous Integration and Software Test Automation principles and implementation.