Senior QA Engineer

***Please Note: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without need for sponsorship now OR in the future (including OPT-EAD, H1B, F1, J1, etc...). Aspira is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas, now or in the future.*** About Aspira For more than 40 years, Aspira has been the market-leading provider of software and services that help public agencies protect natural and cultural resources while making them accessible for all. Our platform supports everything from campground reservations to hunting licenses, helping millions of people discover, enjoy, and care for the outdoors. We share our client partners’ mission: to steward resources for future generations, create opportunities for genuine enjoyment of the outdoors today, and expand access so more people can experience its benefits. Aspira is transforming its technology and service model to give agencies more capacity and insight—streamlined tools, smarter automation, and better connections with their communities. Our goal is simple: make it easier for our clients to conserve what matters most and for their customers to enjoy it to the fullest. FYI Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Aspira is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas, now or in the future. As part of our hiring process, candidates may be required to complete an identity verification check conducted through Checkr, a secure third-party service provider. This step helps confirm the authenticity of applicant identities and supports a fair, secure hiring process for all candidates. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this notice and consent to the potential inclusion of an identity verification step as part of the interview process. The Ideal Candidate As a senior QA Engineer in Aspira, the individual is expected to:   Participate in the entire development life cycle including requirement analysis, driving the testing from planning to completion, designing good test cases with high coverage, testing web service and applications, tracking defects with meaningful details, providing root cause analysis, impact analysis and participate in code reviews.   Execute the test plan for each iteration/release with the manager   Work side-by-side with the developers to ensure coverage, answer questions and resolve issues.   Design and maintain automation test scripts.   Creatively leverage various open-source tools, or develop own testing tool/framework to help with function/technical testing    Share knowledge with peers, by contributing the documentation in the company’s confluence   Key Responsibilities Undertake test preparation for a variety of projects ,  including  resource estimati ons , planning, scoping,  and  identifying data / environmental requirements .   Execute  testing tasks  as needed for   various  projects,  track  issues and escalate  when  necessary .   Coordinate  with other QA engineers  and  automation  teams  to ensure comprehensive test coverage.   Validate an d  smoke test   production  releases .   Support  urgent product issues  and  work with developers to resolve the issues .   High efficiency work on daily escalation support  issues     Work with  both onshore  and  offshore  teams, such as  Product,  Account Managers ,  DevOps ,  Infrastructure ,  databases ,  and  App Support teams .   Daily  communication  with  local  stakeholders to pass  accurate  information through meetings, emails, SMS etc .   Qualifications Must have 5+ years’ experience in functional testing.    Must have detailed knowledge of SQL Server databases, experience writing SQL   queries and testing SSRS reports.   Automation testing using Selenium is a plus.    Experience with Defect Tracking tools such as JIRA, SpiraTeam etc.   Proven experience with GitLab and GitHub code repositories.   Familiarity with Microsoft .NET framework, Visual Studio/VS Code and testing frameworks such as MSTest or xUnit.   Basic knowledge of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda etc.).   Strong verbal and written communication skills. Technical documentation experience is a plus.   E xperience in security testing, especially with PCI-DSS is desired.