QA Automation Engineer

Overview

As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for improving scalability, performance, resilience and security of the venture, through a combination of re-engineering and innovation. Your day-to-day responsibility will include acceptance testing, end-to-end functional testing.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with software development engineers to develop and implement manual and automated tests
• Work with Product Management and other engineers in the company to understand user requirements and application feature sets
• Collaboratively define test strategies for functional, integration and performance testing of a distributed cloud-based product
• Develop and execute test plans, data sets and test configurations
• Track and report metrics of product quality
• Work effectively with managers and team members in other groups within the company including Operations, Services and Development
• Work with Support as needed to resolve customer issues
• Verify defect fixes
• Clearly document your work

Qualifications

• Experience in quality assurance engineering, preferably in testing a sophisticated web-based business application
• 3 to 5 years of experience
• Ability to write code in one or more programming languages like Java, Python, Javascript etc to automate tests for the full solution stack (UI, App Layer, API, Web Service, batch jobs, etc)
• Proven experience with functional, integration and regression testing
• Experience with industry standard QA tools for defect tracking, and source control -Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Using test case management tools like TestRail
• Strong software configuration / integration testing and automation experience
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum models Ability to critique work of self and others constructively
• Experience constructing test plans and executing against these plans across functional, regression, unit, system performance, stress and load testing
• Understanding and experience with RedHat Linux and Mac operating systems
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, and ability to communicate detailed technical analysis
• Excellent interpersonal, writing and problem solving skills
• Flexible, adaptable and ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks
• Bachelor degree, preferably in CS or related experience