Software Engineer

Job Description
The Software Engineer is responsible for building, reporting, automating, maintaining, and executing a testing strategy within the retail technology and DevOps stack. Testing considerations include functionality, security, performance, compatibility and usability. This position will be responsible for automating tests within complex projects to ensure product quality. The Software Engineer needs to be a strong communicator and work beside multiple external vendors and within IDQ’s internal team. This role works closely with IDQ’s Retail Technology Team and other internal cross functional team members.
Key Accountabilities Include:
Testing and Reporting
Works autonomously and with minimal supervision, yet collaboratively within DevOps and Retail Technology teams
Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
Ensure product teams provide clear documentation that outline feature enhancement, release components and other change elements
Design, develop and execute automation scripts
Create reports that communicate test status and report findings
Make recommendations and consider opportunities to enhance QA processes
Demonstrates good judgement in implementing methods and time management
Utilize SQL database and SSRS to perform data analysis
Work with product and project managers cross-functionally to establish and continuously refine plans and test cases
Communication
Communicate test strategies and activities to appropriate team members across the organization on a bi-weekly basis
Communicate and work directly with third party vendors to test new releases within the POS and mobile technology stack
Contribute during vendor management conference calls that serve to organize development activities by escalating identified or anticipated QA concerns, or program aspects that require clarification
Work with DevOps to build quality power platform apps
Utilize multiple communication channels including Microsoft products, JIRA, Asana, Teams, etc.
Release Management
Partner with internal team and vendors to assess the severity of and identify solutions for bugs/defects
Make determinations as to whether a release meets UAT acceptance criteria
Review release management notes and provide feedback regarding any opportunities for clarification relative to new or modified user features
Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies