Quality Assurance Engineer
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
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Position Summary
The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and functionality of software products by leading and supporting efforts around the design, implementation, and execution of test plans, scripts, and procedures. This position is essential for maintaining exact standards of software performance, security, and reliability. The QA Engineer acts as a quality champion within the organization, ensuring that products meet the highest standards of quality before they reach the end user. This role requires a combination of technical skills, analytical thinking, and a commitment to excellence.
This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
+ Leads testing of functionality and quality through automated and manual testing for small-to-medium features. Acts as a quality champion and empowers Software Engineers to create highly performant and secure systems.
+ Supports, executes and helps evolve the defined quality assurance roadmap, contributing to the organization's engineering and technology strategy.
+ Supports and leads various initiatives for all quality assurance (QA) aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating with all involved teams including development, QA, and other release management teams. Supports and provides guidance on testing scope and developed testing strategy. Supports test case development, test data repository management, test plan development. Reviews test cases for detail and accuracy. Creates and update test summary artifacts. Develops, maintains, and executes automation of test scripts. Writes and executes automated checks, identifies, analyzes, and report bugs. Works with IT Product Owner to understand acceptance criteria, supports and gathers feedback from user acceptance testing.
+ Supports and ensures alignment of Agile practices for testing scope and develops testing strategy. Supports, monitors, measures, and reports requirements, outputs, and metrics for testing that are aligned with anticipated lead and cycle times.
+ Collaborates with users to translate requirements into design specifications for the review of more senior members of the team. Assesses, tracks, and suggests revisions to technical specifications, ensuring quality and ensuring that they are in line with stakeholder expectations. Assists with reviewing test cases for detail and accuracy.
+ Ensures proper documentation of software test results and collaborates with stakeholders to design and implement corrective actions.
+ Plans and implements testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality. Looks to identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort through automation of repeatable tests. Assists and/or drives identification of potential opportunities to reduce testing time and efforts by automating repeatable tests. Supports DevSecOps transformation with enabling Software Engineers to expand on Automation testing within the Agile life cycle. Utilizes centralized reporting for all defects/incidents using standard tools that may generate defects and diminish quality of delivery.
Education and Experience
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience preferred.
+ 2+ years of relevant experience required.
+ Experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts.
+ Strong proficiency in Tosca automation tool preferred.
+ Experience working in a robust QA program preferred.
+ ISTQB Foundation Level certification a plus but not required.
Skills
+ Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
+ Automated Testing - The automation of repetitive but necessary tasks in a formalized testing process already in place or performing additional testing that would be difficult to do manually.
+ Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
+ Debugging - The process of finding and resolving bugs within computer programs, software, or systems.
+ DevSecOps - A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and as well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.
+ General Programming - Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.
+ Log Monitoring - Logging and monitoring are crucial aspects of software development that involve capturing and analyzing information about a software system's behavior, performance, and errors.
+ Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing, and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change while also communicating to relevant stakeholders.
+ Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality software.
+ Software Testing - An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test.
+ Version Control System - Software tool that helps engineers and other collaborators manage changes to source code, documents, and other files over time.
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Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Additional locations:
San Antonio, Texas
Job Requisition ID:
00015035
Location Address:
539 S Main St
Education:
Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here (https://marathonpetroleum.brandextract.com/staged/marathonpetroleum.com/content/documents/Jobs\_/Department\_of\_Labor\_EEOC\_.pdf) . If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at talentacquisition@marathonpetroleum.com . Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com .The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program. Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability
We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.
About Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.
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