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Planisware

Quality Assurance Engineer

Planisware, Denver, Colorado, United States, 80285

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This range is provided by Planisware. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range $70,000.00/yr - $80,000.00/yr

About Planisware Planisware is a global provider of software solutions for project and strategic portfolio management. Planisware solutions are specifically designed to support product development, engineering, and IT business processes. Our solutions are used by companies such as Hydro-Québec, CAE, Pfizer, Schlumberger, SpinMaster, and Johnson & Johnson. For close to 30 years, Planisware has been helping its customers to accelerate innovation, deliver operational excellence, make informed strategic business decisions, and ultimately increase portfolio value and success. Today, over 1,000 companies worldwide rely on Planisware to manage their projects, resources, and portfolios.

About the Role Planisware is seeking a motivated QA Engineer who will be responsible for quality assurance activities in the context of software implementations by our consulting teams. Your ultimate objective will be to drive higher customer satisfaction through quality by design. Working as part of a team of Planisware functional and technical consultants, you will set the bar high when it comes to quality assurance and testing activities and will proactively help drive improvements within the teams to achieve this. You will be responsible for quality assurance activities on Planisware Enterprise implementation projects and will work with our consulting team, ensuring client satisfaction by the application of a “quality by design” methodology.

Location This role will be based out of our Denver, CO office. Planisware currently has a hybrid policy of working in the office four days per week, Monday-Thursday, with remote work allowed on Friday. This is subject to change as the company sees fit.

Your Responsibilities:

Work alongside and as part of consulting teams to deliver high-quality implementations to Planisware customers

Analyze user stories and functional requirements for completeness, and proactively ask questions to confirm assumptions or have unclear features explained

Derive test cases for Planisware projects that will verify expected outcomes and help identify gaps or unanticipated behaviors

Design and execute test scripts to test Planisware implementation of user stories, documenting validation of test scenarios, defects, and resolution

Analyze test results, review test scripts and documentation for other team members as needed

Pro-actively track progress against plan for testing activities

Follow Planisware quality processes to ensure all standards are adhered to and documentation provided in a timely manner

Use Planisware and customer tools, such as Jira, Azure to manage and track requirements, test cases, results and defects. Proactively track metrics in these tools to ensure tasks are on schedule

Liaise with the consulting and managed service teams to ensure clarifications/requests for information are proactively communicated and responded to effectively, and risks and issues are tracked, monitored and communicated to stakeholders

Define the scope of regressions suites, with guidance and support from the consulting teams, and be responsible for maintaining these each sprint

Effectively present information in both written and verbal form to management, customers, or other team members

Help with quality audits, improvement initiatives and other quality activities as needed

Your Qualifications:

BA or BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Ideally 1-3 years of experience, at least as an intern in a software development environment, preferably with a QA focus

Requires basic knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts of QA and the software development lifecycle, and software methodologies

Good organizational skills, being able to work effectively on concurrent projects are required

Ability to be a point person for QA discussions and queries within the teams

Able to understand and translate functional use cases and/or technical specifications into test cases

Strong written and oral communication skills

Quick learner, efficient multi-tasker, and team player

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in SaaS environments

Experience in Agile methodologies

Possession of quality assurance certification(s)

Knowledge of portfolio and/or project management and experience with such software platforms

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology, Product Management, and Quality Assurance

Software Development

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