Software Quality Engineer II in Arlington, Virginia at Airlines Reporting Corporation

It's a great time to join us at Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)! ARC accelerates the growth of global air travel by delivering forward-looking travel data, flexible distribution services and other innovative industry solutions. We are a leading travel intelligence company with the world’s largest, most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset, including more than 15 billion passenger flights. By working here, you can contribute to solutions and expertise that strengthen economies and enrich lives. We think big, embrace challenges and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.

ARC is looking for a Software Quality Engineer II to review project documentation (requirements/user stories, designs) to create, present, and maintain test artifacts including automated tests. Break down test scope and identify automation opportunities. Coordinate automated testing within a project. Create, update, and execute test scripts. Identify, create, and maintain test data sets. Provide support and ensure adherence to quality automation standards. Maintain required automated test documentation and reporting. Work in cross-functional teams with development and collaborate with all project team members in a productive way.

1. Review and interpret requirements/user stories and design documents to understand the application(s) or areas assigned to derive automated test scope& strategy for functional and API verification scripts. This includes determination and creation of test data sets.
2. Participate in cross-functional teams / multi-site meetings and initiatives, ensure the interdepartmental integration of the automation function for software test planning. Contribute to project discussion and provide input on feasibility of functionality and testability of ideas and requirements. Coordination of testing across multiple environments to ensure streamlined automated testing, minimize redundancy and reduce risk or erroneous defects.
3. Assist DevOps with continuous integration. Exercise good judgement in implementing methods and techniques
4. Write complex functional scripts from the analysis of requirements and design documents. Write and execute simple to highly complex SQL statements. Automated test execution for functional verification, system integration, and backend validation.
5. Create and present scripts that meet the project goals and department strategies. Recommend automation improvements as needed.
6. Provide automated testing baseline and LOE’s for more complex projects and changes, as determined by project needs. Breakdown LOE and allocate to testing tasks as input to project plan.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Math; Master’s Degree preferred; equivalent work experience considered
• At least 2 years of experience as a Software Quality Engineer
• Experience in QA tool (preferably TestRail), and collaboration tools such as JIRA and/or Confluence.
• Expert knowledge of quality assurance methodologies and automated testing tools (i.e. Playwright, Selenium, Jenkins)
• Experience with programming- coding in either C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript preferred
• Experience in automated frameworks and metrics
• Experience in Data verification and reports testing, i.e. Jasper, Tableau
• Experience in DevOps and Test-Driven Development
• Experience testing in a Cloud environment, preferably AWS
• Experience in functional automated testing
• Familiar with Windows, UNIX and/or Linux environments
• Experience in databases/SQL
• Thrives working in a fast-paced web application development environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and providing process improvements.
• Certification in agile development methodology preferred.
• Strong sense of ownership and drive high results.
• Excellent communication skills are required for both client and team interaction.