Associate QA Engineer
EAB

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About EAB

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We harness the collective power of more than 1,900 schools, colleges, and universities to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights. And since complex problems require multifaceted solutions, we work with each school differently to apply these insights through a customized blend of research, technology, and services. From kindergarten to college and beyond, EAB partners with education leaders, practitioners, and staff to accelerate progress and drive results across three key areas: enrollment management, student success, and institutional operations and strategy.

At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other-that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their community. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

For more information, visit our Careers page.

The Role in Brief:

Associate QA Engineer

Opportunity based in Richmond, VA

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate and provide input on story requirements, design, estimation and test approach discussions
• Collaborate with the development team and business partners to ensure the scope of tests is comprehensive, and to mitigate defects prior to testing
• Create test data sets which fully exercise data validation, reports, and end-to-end system functionality
• Validate code changes (both manual and automated fashion) in web-based development environment (Tech stack includes Python, Ruby, Java, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle)
• Identify potential impact areas to existing downstream functionality; identifying and communicating risks when appropriate
• Create detailed test case documents and maintain them with ongoing product changes
• Create SQL scripts to validate actual test results match expected results
• Identify and log defects if/when a test fails, if necessary, using SQL to narrow down the root cause of the problem for efficient investigation by the development team
• Work with stakeholders to understand product requirements and use cases
• Write clear, concise, descriptive defect reports and verify defect fixes
• Support developers in troubleshooting test failures
• Support QA process improvements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of prior experience in software QA any modern web-based development environment
• Good practical knowledge of relational databases (SQL)
• Scrum/Agile background
• Knowledge of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework.
• Experience with test case writing using domain oriented language (Gherkin etc.)
• Knowledge of web application architecture and technologies, including multi-platform/browser support
• Basic object-oriented programming skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Ideal Qualifications:

• Experience with automation tools like Selenium Webdriver
• Experience testing Rest API's / Webservices
• Experience with Performance/Load testing including open source tools
• Exposure to any Cloud computing and/or Big Data technologies

Benefits:

Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; dependents and domestic partners eligible
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• 20+ days of PTO annually, in addition to paid firm holidays
• Daytime leave policy for community service or fitness activities (up to 10 hours a month each)
• Paid parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents
• Phase Back to Work program for employees returning from parental leave
• Infertility treatment coverage and adoption or surrogacy assistance
• Wellness programs including gym discounts and incentives to promote healthy living
• Dynamic growth opportunities with merit-based promotion philosophy
• Benefits kick in day one, see the full details here.

At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to "make education smarter and our communities stronger" we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.

To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

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