Software Quality Engineer (Freelance Contract)

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Code and Review: Continuously code read analyze design and optimize front-end back-end and integration code across Merkles proprietary products and solutions throughout the development lifecycle: assessing technical design implementation quality identifying technical risk areas and pinpointing the right scope for testing.
• Product Ownership: Act as Product Owner for Merkles proprietary innovation products: defining and prioritizing the product backlog aligning roadmap decisions with business stakeholders and ensuring features are delivered in line with business goals and user needs.
• Test Strategy Automation & CI/CD: Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into test plans cases and automation frameworks for web apps and APIs covering functional non-functional test scenarios integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for early defect detection. Perform manual or exploratory testing for complex workflows and new features as needed.
• Agile Collaboration: Participate actively in Sprint planning daily stand-ups and retrospectives advocating for software quality best practices from the early design stages (Shift-Left approach).

Qualifications:

• 4 years of professional experience in software engineering / test automation with strong working knowledge of full-stack application development (front-end and back-end) sufficient to analysing code and assess technical risk.
• Strong proficiency with modern automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium Cypress Playwright Robot Framework or Appium.
• Solid foundational knowledge in programming/scripting languages used for testing preferably JavaScript TypeScript Python or Go.
• Extensive experience with backend API testing utilizing tools like Postman SoapUI or RestAssured.
• Competency in writing SQL queries to manipulate and verify backend data structures.
• Experienced with core development tools and project management platforms such as Git Jira YouTrack and Asana.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience executing performance load or stress testing using tools like JMeter or k6 is a plus.
• Familiarity with containerized execution environments (e.g. Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) is a plus.
• Prior experience as a QE working closely alongside full-stack development teams ideally within MarTech AdTech or data-driven product environments is preferred.
• Professional QA/QE certifications such as ISTQB (Certified Tester Foundation or Advanced Level) is a plus.

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