QA Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, Virginia, McLean
1410 Spring Hill Road (Show on map)
Mar 06, 2025
Are you passionate about the chance to bring your quality assurance experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to serve and protect our citizens home and abroad? Do you have the skills necessary to support the continuous improvement of API development processes? Then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you! About the Role The QA Software Engineer is responsible for software (API) testing, data quality and test automation. Your expertise will be pivotal in enforcing data quality standards, performing rigorous testing, detecting, and resolving data issues, and supporting the continuous improvement of our API development processes. As a QA Software Engineer, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including: Implement automated test cases for both new and existing features and data. Optimize manual tests cases where automation is not possible. Create and maintain testing environments, data and test suites. Working with developers and product team, create test cases based on minimal requirements. Work iteratively with the development team to test and release within designated cycle. Analyze test results to ensure correct functionality, create bug reports with reproducible steps and interact with the team for resolution of defects. Maintain test artifacts and test evidence in CI/CD environments. Responsible for communicating daily progress, issues, risks and quality metrics. About You You're a good fit for the role of QA Software Engineer if you have: Minimum of 3 years of experience as a QA Engineer, relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. Experienced with QA automation techniques, frameworks, and strategies. At least 2 years performing hands on coding of automated tests using Java or Groovy. Hands-on experience utilizing intermediate-advanced SQL. Knowledge of JavaScript, Python or other scripting tools. Experience with GIT versioning workflows. Hands-on experience with querying databases. Hands-on experience with data quality validations. Hands-on experience automating RESTful API test cases. Ability to communicate with business and technical users in understanding new requirements and resolving issues. Self-driven, strong communicator with proven ability and discipline to work with a distributed development team in multiple time zones. Be able to independently research issues and quickly learn multiple applications with little guidance. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Comfortable working independently, utilizing agile methodology in a fast-paced, iterative environment. Familiar with JIRA, Github issues, or similar tracking control tools. U.S. Citizenship essential to comply with government contract/agency or department of Federal Government requirements. Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance. Additional Desired Qualifications Experience with continuous integration systems like Github Actions. Experience using the Spock framework. Experience loadtesting using tools like Locust or Gatling. Experience with Snowflake. Ability to setup and maintain UI and API test automation frameworks. Hands-on experience automating front-end UI tests with tools such as Playwright and Selenium. #LI-CS1 What's in it For You? You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through: Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking. Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact. Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world. In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $72,100 - $133,900. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This job posting will close 06/01/2025. Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. Accessibility As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. 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