Principal Quality Assurance Engineer Responsibilities

• Design and deliver risk-based test plans for new and current features and functionalities of D&B applications and full stack development processes. 
• Assess feature and project requirements to develop test strategy and QA deliverables to ensure end to end test coverage which includes gap analysis through SDLC.
• Oversee, build, and maintain knowledge repository of policies, procedures and standards ensuring delivery of high-quality features and functionality.
• Design and supervise the implementation of automation/manual test scripts which integrates engineering programming languages such as C, C++, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Postman, Rest API, JMeter and SQL Server for full stack delivery of ensuring project features are validated for product delivery as part of QA test plan strategy.
• Lead the anomaly detection framework for automation by identifying test failures in the automation scripts and/or application code for feature readiness for all environments during acceptance testing.
• Lead the accuracy and identification of the source of discrepancies between expected/actual test results and analyze the impact of any design changes.
• Design and implement big data driven testing and validation strategies advancing new and regression transactional test utilizing Snowflake, SQL, platforms, and/or Python code.
• Analyze, validate, and visualize data warehouse technical architecture, infrastructure components, ETL (Extract, Transfer & Load Data) and reporting/BI (Business Intelligence) to test data supply chain using tools like Power BI and data views. 
• Partner with the Data Engineering and Data Site Reliability platform teams to develop feature specific automated test cases ensuring the data accuracy.
• Define strategy and plan the roadmap for automation and framework to achieve higher testing throughput, increased accessibility, and test execution flexibility.
• Analyze and decompose complicated software system, design testing strategy to drive high quality feature delivery to targeted release and increase regression coverage through automation.
• Lead the QA function completeness for change management production readiness.
• Mentor, coach, and train QA engineers regarding execution of automated scripts and error research.
• Ensuring 99.99% customer facing application stability.
• Take ownership of team success and customer outcomes.
• Ensure deliverables are being worked upon to satisfy the project requirements and schedule which include co-ordinate and track with the offshore team on the various test activities and provide guidance. 
• May work from home from any location in the United States or from any Dun & Bradstreet office in the U.S. 

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (U.S. or foreign degree equivalent) plus three (3) years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related quality assurance engineering or quality assurance development role OR Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (U.S. or foreign degree equivalent) plus five (5) years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related quality assurance engineering or quality assurance development role.
• Three (3) years with a Master’s degree OR five (5) years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree with: designing automation strategy and evaluating automation tools that drive innovation and methods into projects which simulates business cases or stories; utilizing software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, Agile Methodology, and Quality Assurance Best Practices; developing test strategy including test plan, test scenarios and test cases to ensure test coverage; information technology project management, quality assurance, quality control, as well as load and performance testing; utilizing Jenkins and Source Code Management tools such as GIT or GitHub; designing and creating automation framework for Web Application under Test using Selenium WebDriver with JBehave or CUCUMBER framework; and utilizing each of the following tools and technologies including: Selenium, Selenium WebDriver, Node.JS, Java, Java Script, CSS, WebServices, Microservices; defining volume requirements, debug test scripts, and performing load test using Jmeter by analyzing the live web traffic using New Relic; performing data analysis, data verification, and data validation of ETL (extract, transform, load) applications using backend and database testing; writing Transact SQL queries involving creation of Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, File groups, Partitions, performing inserts, updates, deletes using Joins, Sub queries, Cursors and adding constraints on the tables; manipulating data using SSIS and TSQL; writing complex stored procedures and TSQL code; performance tuning SQL Server and SSIS Packages; write efficient TSQL and ETL Code; utilizing API (application programming interface) system and application-level testing using Postman; and working with synthetic monitoring tools such as New Relic APM or Paper Trail tools.
• Must have three (3) years of experience required with: utilizing Single Sign On (SSO) using SAML 2.0, IDaaS, or OKTA integrations; and working with core AWS services and security practices. May work from home from any location in the United States or from any Dun & Bradstreet office in the U.S.