Software Quality Engineer III (Mainframe)
US-VA-Arlington
Job ID: 2025-2432
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Technology
Arlington
Overview
It's a great time to join us at Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)! ARC accelerates the growth of global air travel by delivering forward-looking travel data, flexible distribution services and other innovative industry solutions. We are a leading travel intelligence company with the world’s largest, most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset, including more than 15 billion passenger flights. By working here, you can contribute to solutions and expertise that strengthen economies and enrich lives. We think big, embrace challenges and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.
ARC is looking for a Software Quality Engineer III to join our team! In this role, you will review project documentation (requirements/user stories, designs) to plan, create, present, and maintain test artifacts. This role will break down test scope and identify improvement/automation opportunities. You will coordinate testing across multiple projects and environments. You will create, update, and execute test scripts. This role will identify, create, and maintain test data sets. You will identify improvements, provide support, and ensure adherence to quality standards. Additionally, you will maintain required quality documentation and reporting. This role will work in cross-functional teams with development and collaborate with all project team members in a productive way.
Responsibilities- Review and interpret requirements/user stories and design documents to understand the application(s) or areas assigned to plan & derive test scope, strategy, test case scripts and metrics. Determine and create test data sets.
- Participate in cross-functional multi-site meetings and initiatives, ensure the interdepartmental integration of the quality function for software test planning. Contribute to project discussion and provide expertise on feasibility of functionality and testability of ideas and requirements. Coordinate testing across multiple projects and environments to ensure streamlined testing, minimize redundancy and reduce risk or erroneous defects.
- Assist DevOps with continuous integration. Exercise good judgement in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluate criteria for solutions.
- Write complex functional scripts from the analysis of requirements and design documents. Write and execute simple to highly complex SQL statements.
- Create and present scripts that meet the project goals and department strategies. Automated test execution for functional verification, system integration, and backend validation. Recommend automation improvements as needed. Define and maintain automation standards
- Provide automated testing baseline and LOE’s for more complex projects and changes, as determined by project needs. Breakdown LOE and allocate to testing tasks as input to project plan.
Qualifications- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Math preferred; equivalent experience considered
- At least 5 years of experience as a Software Quality Engineer.
- Experience in QA tool administration (preferably TestRail), and collaboration tools such as JIRA and/or Confluence.
- Experience in automated frameworks and metrics.
- Experience in Data verification and reports testing; i.e. Jasper, Tableau.
- Experience in DevOps and Test Driven Development.
- Experience testing in a Cloud environment, preferably AWS.
- Experience in both functional and performance automated testing.
- Experience with programming; coding in either C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and specifically TypeScript preferred.
- Expert knowledge of quality assurance methodologies and automated testing tools. I.e. PlayWright, Selenium.
- Familiar with Windows, UNIX and/or Linux environments.
- Advanced knowledge of databases/SQL.
- Thrives working in a fast-paced web application development environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and providing process improvements.
- Certification in agile development methodology preferred.
- Strong sense of ownership and drive high results.
- Very strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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