Job description

You will - Review requirements and seek clarification around any ambiguities with a focus on customer impact and business goals. Leverage input from product stakeholders to determine if requirements and solution meet those needs - Understand the implications of design decisions and adjust testing approach based on the impact and risk in the short and long-term - Partner with product owners and senior developers to understand and design tests around any non-functional system requirements in areas such as data retention, performance, and security - Define and deliver well-scoped test plans for projects. May include working in the role of a project quality lead across several teams to ensure all pieces of a combined, larger functionality meet project goals - Mentor less-experienced team members by providing guidance as well as modeling solid quality practices and professional behavior - Consistently deliver clear, flexible, reusable, and efficient manual and automated tests with thoughtful decisions when choosing one over the other - Proactively identify, gain alignment, and implement improvements to current testing practices and tools. - Create defects with clear and complete steps to reproduce. Perform initial investigation using server logs, browser tools, and other resources available – include details upon submission. Own and drive defects to resolution - Participate in code reviews. Provide thoughtful and actionable feedback. Respond to feedback with openness and implement beneficial changes - Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation for high priority incidents and address issues with appropriate level of urgency - Drive discussions with manager about career growth. Actively seek opportunities to grow professional skillset - Model and promote Protolabs’ defined quality best-practices and standards as well as internal team goals - Perform additional tasks as assigned What it takes - Degree in Computer Science or related field, completion of a qualified bootcamp, or equivalent experienceTooling and languages: - .NET frameworks, C#, Azure DevOps, Git, SQL Server, test repositories, automation frameworks - Experience working with agile, SAFe, or scum methodologies and processes - 7+ years of experience in software testing or development with 5 of those years including writing and maintaining automated tests - Experience working with event-driven services and web service testingHands-on experience with the following activities: - Software testing and defect identification - Writing manual and automated tests - Use of test and defect management systems - Use of code version control systems - Writing test code in object-oriented languages - Writing SQL queries - Use of integrated development environments - Debugging and troubleshooting issues Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Understanding of software development and testing practices and methodologies. Includes understanding of when to use manual or automated testing - Capable of reading and navigating functions and classes/modules - Understanding of web services, service-oriented and microservice architectures, and eventdriven systems - Strong sense of accountability. Take ownership of assigned work, seek clarification or guidance when needed, and deliver on time - Ability to independently prioritize tasks appropriately based on impact and delivery dates - Ability to learn from mistakes and seek to minimize risk of recurrence without dwelling on them - Encourage feedback from peers and managers. Act upon it accordingly by looking at both strengths and growth areas. Ability to also provide thoughtful and effective feedback - Share ideas to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the team. Encourage others to do the same by fostering an environment of collaboration and innovation - Engage in valuable, open, exchanges of differing ideas through productive conflict - Communicate proactively, forthrightly, and concisely with the ability to adapt messaging to meet the needs of various stakeholders

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