Associate Software Engineer in Test

OPENLANE is a technology company that builds a digital marketplace for used vehicles. They are seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to validate requirements and support the development of digital products in the automotive remarketing industry, ensuring high-quality software through testing practices and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Development team from the viewpoint of software quality and test cases, executing manual test cases and learning test automation
• Compose quality user stories with detailed acceptance criteria for functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Assist the Agile Delivery Manager, Engineering team, Business team in refining the user stories, ensuring the acceptance criteria are understood by the development teams
• Assist the Engineering team in validating that acceptance criteria are met, and business objectives are achieved
• Participate in meetings and communications with internal and external teams to identify test and identify integrations and system-to-system flows
• Collect and analyze a variety of data and, with guidance, identify key themes and validate assumptions regarding product features
• Help to triage, diagnose, and solve production system software problems
• Participating in cross-discipline collaboration with team members including the product owners, designers, and developers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent related experience required
• Excellent attention to detail and a good eye for quality
• Able to create and carry out test plans to make sure all goals are reached
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to clearly articulate ideas and comfortable interacting with end users, business partners, and technical individuals
• Excellent time management skills, ability to work collaboratively, but also able to think independently and work autonomously
• Extensive knowledge of software and database testing including designing and manipulating test data, validating batch jobs and experience with writing SQL queries
• 1-2 years of experience in business analysis and software development lifecycle preferred
• Familiarity with testing tools for APIs such as Postman and test automation tools such as Playwright
• Experience working with Agile software development methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban is a plus
• Some familiarity with product management tool (e.g., Jira) is a plus
• Certifications in relevant testing technologies