QA Engineer
Caterpillar
- Rapid City, SD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design and implement tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions.
- Review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)
- Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
- Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.
- Monitor debugging process results.
- Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions.
- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
- Stay current with new testing tools and test strategies.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
- Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
Level Basic Understanding:
- Identifies basic design methods and design tools.
- Identifies major components of functional and technical design.
- Cites examples of good and bad designs.
- Describes tasks, activities, deliverables and key concerns of technical design.
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Maintains and utilizes data related to install base configurations and environments.
- Solicits customer feedback; reports and monitors bugs and implementation issues.
- Participates in defining and conducting technical acceptance tests.
- Participates in creating technical requirements for software development and deployment.
- Explains basic environment and product configuration options.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Participates in test readiness reviews, functional, volume, and load testing.
- Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.
- Tests software components for compliance with functional requirements and design specifications.
- Explains procedures for documenting test activities and results (e.g. errors, non-conformance, etc.)
- Conducts functional and performance testing on aspects of assigned products.
- Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies
- Professional certification
- Proven experience as a QA Engineer or similar role
- Experience testing desktop and mobile applications (responsive web design principles)
- Great attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Competitive Base Salary
- Annual incentive bonus plan*
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
- 401k savings plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Life Insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Healthy Lifestyle Programs
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)