Applications QA Engineer (USA) - [MIS151B]

Who we are—

Transcat is a dynamic, innovative, growing company that has been recognized as the leading calibration and compliance services provider in North America and beyond.  With over 1,000 employees—in technical, consulting, operational, sales, finance, and corporate roles—we have stood the test of time by delivering on our Trust in Every Measure promise to our customers in vital industries, including life sciences, aerospace, defense, energy, and utilities.  We fulfill this promise through our employees, who live Our Values every day, the Transcat Way.  Our employees are at the center of the rewarding, challenging, and life-changing work we do for our customers and those they serve.  Are you ready to join a company where the work you do makes a difference, and where you can grow in your career? 

Here’s what Transcat has to offer—

• Work that matters
• A values-based culture where people care about each other and the work they do together
• Flexibility
• Training and development to accelerate learning and career advancement
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including paid time off, health insurance, tuition reimbursement, retirement, stock purchase plan, and MORE!
• Salary range $65k-$80k

The Applications QA Engineer will ensure quality software delivery for internal and customer-facing applications. This position would require the employee to document and perform validation and regression testing for all software developed by Transcat’s internal applications development teams, including but not limited to calibration, receiving, ERP, eCommerce, and Salesforce feature implementations. This position will also require the employee to be in constant contact with the development teams, participating in reviews with the developers, and assisting in deployments with Transcat’s infrastructure team. This role will involve manual testing, as well as development and execution of automated testing.

• Model the Company’s values to influence others to perform in an aligned manner
• Work with internal development teams to document and design testing procedures
• Develop and execute automated testing procedures
• Author detailed reports containing analysis from test executions
• Design and execute manual testing procedures
• Present reports to developers on project standups
• Run and maintain annual regression test plan
• Smoke test and provide quality signoffs for software deployments
• Other duties as assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Prior development or automated QA experience
• Experience with automated testing frameworks, such as Selenium or Cypress
• Experience with development languages used for automated testing, such as Javascript
• Experience with test case management software, such as TestRail
• Experience with manual testing procedures
• Some understanding of development languages and tools such as PHP, .NET, and AWS Lambda
• Basic understanding of SQL
• Experience with application ALMs, such as Jira
• Experience with testing REST API-based architecture and tools to perform tests such as Postman
• Experience working and communicating with development teams
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities
• Excellent attention to detail

Education and Experience:

• 1-2 years related experience developing automated testing
• College degree in Computer Science or similar field preferred

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination

Transcat is an equal-opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of any protected status.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, gender identity, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran or as a member of any other protected group or activity.

We will make reasonable accommodations for personnel with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of this position unless to do so poses an undue hardship on the company or a direct threat to health and safety.

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