Quality Engineer Senior

Stellar Elements • Fulltime • Chicago, IL, USA, United States • 6m ago

At Stellar Elements, we’re good people against bad experiences.

Whether it’s customer, employee, or brand experience—we focus on closing the gap between business needs and what people actually desire. This takes passionate problem-solvers, brilliant minds, and deep wells of empathy.

Our clients love working with us because we understand their challenges, understand their customers, and we do great work while making each step of the process inspiring and energizing. We are a global force of nearly 1,000 experience expertsand a collection of curious mindswith a vibrant array of talents and backgrounds—united in creating better experiences for all.

Company Overview:

At Stellar Elements, we solve our clients’ business challenges by creating experiences that engage, innovate, disrupt, and delight. Our team is passionate about human-centric experience strategy, design and development and enjoys delivering amazing concepts and digital solutions for our clients. We have fun and enjoy hanging out with each other in a culture that supports and celebrates our diverse talents, backgrounds, and skills.

Position Overview:

This position will be responsible for Quality Engineering on team. They will be working closely with stakeholders to identify gaps and will propose solutions for fixing the issues discovered. They will work closely with the development teams to ensure the new features being developed can be tested well.

Responsibilities:

Develop and execute automated regression tests for new and existing functionality.
Create comprehensive test plans and strategies that meet functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Perform hands-on testing, including black-box, white-box, and grey-box testing, as well as application, usability, functional, regression, and performance testing in a client environment.
Develop and maintain flexible and maintainable automated test scripts for both front-end and back-end automation.
Identify, record, and document defects, and analyze recurring issues to recommend and implement solutions.
Participate in release planning and product roll-outs, and communicate product readiness, quality metrics, and results to the project team.
Continuously identify gaps in quality assurance processes and actively address them for ongoing improvement.
Mentor and provide guidance to junior Quality Engineers, promoting best practices in testing and quality assurance.

Requirements:

Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in writing test suites using programming languages such as Java, Python, or TypeScript.
Minimum of 4 years of experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, BDD, Robot) for front-end and back-end systems.
Expertise with JUnit, Sprint Test, Lombok and AssertJ.
Minimum of 4 years of experience integrating with CI/CD systems like CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
Strong experience with various testing techniques, including performance, unit, integration, and automated testing.
Proficiency in designing and executing test plans and utilizing software testing methodologies.
Expertise in API testing using tools such as Postman, Insomnia, Swagger.
Excellent analytical, debugging, and optimization skills.
Demonstrated strong communication and collaboration skills.

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If this sounds like you, let’s talk!

Direct applicants only, no agency submittals please. Benefits only apply to full-time hires.

We are an equal opportunity employer
Stellar Elements and its subsidiaries complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.