QA Engineer - Manual

• Plan, organize, and implement day to day activities of testing and work with developers, architects, and technical release managers within an agile/scrum environment • Participate in scrum & product planning and be responsible for all phases and types of testing, including but not limited to strategies, requirements, planning, management, execution and reporting • Document and facilitate communication and troubleshooting of issues, bugs, changes validate and close-out all issues prior to client delivery • Collaborate with other QA staff to accomplish all daily QA tasks on-time with a high level of quality • Develop process to ensure the highest level of quality assurance possible • Investigate procedures, workflows, and software to keep processes up to date • Assist in the development of on-going training programs for the QA Team • Provide department specific orientation and training for new hires • Maintain open communication with internal teams • Assist with internal project kickoffs and requirements/specs gathering • Understand complex business and functional requirements and provide direction in designing the technical test cases that thoroughly test the tech stack from architectural standpoint and meet the project requirements. • Work with project, engineering teams in implementing & enforcing quality gates at each stage of pipeline.