Summary:

How would you like to add a critical competency to a highly competent 17-person software development team? The Quality Assurance Automation Engineer works within Product Development to perform automated testing of software and SaaS products. 

Direct Client Contact:  No

Direct Reports: No

Travel Required: No

• Prepare high-level functional test plan documents for product development
• Prepare detailed test cases for product development and maintain regression test suites
• Perform hands-on automated product testing, problem reporting and issue resolution

• Design automation framework for ongoing product testing

• Create and maintain automated test scripts
• Document all issues in defect tracking software
• Assist Engineering teams in troubleshooting issues identified in testing
• Work with business and manual QA analysts to infuse automated testing into existing processes
• Work with Release Manager to ensure unit tests and automated tests are executed reliably during builds
• Work with Product Development team in establishing and maintaining quality standards for all new product development and enhancements

Skills Required:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance with a focus on implementing and designing automated test scripts, and performance/load tests, in a fast paced, agile development environment
• Minimum of 5 years development experience in multiple languages, .NET and/or PHP preferred
• Extensive experience testing SaaS and web applications
• Experience designing building automation frameworks
• 3+ years of SQL
• Experience understanding business needs, converting manual test cases to automated tests
• Demonstrated experience building custom test harnesses
• Highly motivated self-starter, but team player who works well on cross functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to portray information in a logical and well organized manner
• Strong technical person with the ability to perform under pressure and adhere to deadlines
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• Sense of humor, light ego. High tolerance for technical debt and developers who say things like “Well why are you testing for that??”

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.  Or it could be Music, English Lit, Paleontology, or Basket Weaving.  Just so you are excellent at what you do now, and you love it!