Senior Quality Assurance Engineer II (Job Vacancy)

PowerSchool is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior SQA Engineer to join our dynamic PowerSchool International team. As a Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for the QA Automation efforts of PowerSchool portfolio of products targeting various countries across the globe. Additionally, you will play a significant role in building framework components for Internationalization in various technologies, with a primary focus on Java and React JavaScript.

You will join an Agile team of developers within the SchoolMessenger organization. Tens of thousands of schools depend on SchoolMessenger products to achieve their communications goals. From notifications and websites to digital forms, attendance management, two-way chat messaging and more, SchoolMessenger solutions help school administrators connect with people in multiple languages and on any device. Be a part of our growing success.

This position, under the general direction of the Manager, Software Engineering, will be responsible for technical and development support for our award-winning K-12 software. This role will implement, code, build, and test new features, maintain existing features, and develop reports that will include components, data models, customization, and reporting features for our products. Additionally, this position will gather and refine requirements, develop designs, implement, test and document solutions to produce the highest quality product and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Participate in, complex software projects in order to develop test and automate which are cost effective while meeting the business needs of the Company
• Analyze and review functional and performance requirements to support product scalability as necessary
• Perform troubleshooting and issue resolution throughout project ensuring issues are brought to resolution and on-going communication with project team
• Ensure proper documentation during all stages of the project
• Lead the development, test and automate of software solutions in order to ensure that the solution architecture is translated into high-quality, maintainable, secure, and efficient code that follows established development guidelines
• Participate in activities throughout the entire software development life cycle providing consultative advise and direction to development team
• Coach and mentor project team members to ensure thorough understanding of project tasks and company goals
• Conduct code reviews, test case reviews to verify design and provide corrective action where necessary
• Monitor and conduct regression testing in entirety to ensure negative impacts do not result once program alterations are completed
• Cooperate with team members to meet goals or complete tasks
• able to work with external team for product take over or integrations or collaboration.
• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions.
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related field required
• 7+ years of development experience on Java related technologies
• 4+ Manual & Automation Testing (Java/Selenium/webdriver.io), J meter usage preferred
• Testing on cloud for medium to large sized projects preferred.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Maintains strong attention to detail in high-pressure situations
• Solid understanding of business practices with fundamental understanding of project management methodology
• Requires excellent computer skills

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accommodations@powerschool.com.