Required Skills:
- Good experience coding in Java (Perl is a bonus but not required)
- Experience in Junitis a plus
- Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software quickly
- Enthusiastic and fun individual with an attitude of team empowerment
- Deep interest &curiosity for learning new things and doing things better
- Experience with testing in an Agile environment
- Good communication skills
- Strong knowledge of traditional testing methodologies and how it applies exploratory testing in an Agile environment
- Knowledge of test driven development and the virtues of unit testing is a plus
Education / Experience:
- 4 year bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical discipline, or 5 years of experience in atechnical industry as a quality assurance professional
- Experience of working as an offshore Consultant
- Excellent fluency in English
- Ability to build rapport
- Time management and planning skills
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for working with the project team to define the scope for testing within the context of each sprint/delivers
- Clearly communicate to relevant parties related to the status of testing activities
- Comprehend user stories to understand task items per story in the context of all levels of testing (unit, functional, integration, and regression)
- Assist key business users (product owners) with backlog creation and grooming
- Strengthen the presence of our department as an Agile Center of Excellence
- Perform ad hoc / exploratory testing methodically to ensure the system is working as expected by the end user
- Track testing progress and defects via JIRA
- Responsible for authoring automated test suites.
- Front-end GUI automation via Java and Selenium Webdriver (Not Selenium IDE) / Sikuli
- Service layer testing (SOAP and RESTful) using SOAP UI and Java
- Please Note: The QA Automation Engineer will author Java code (automation is not record and playback)
- Ensure proper documentation related to testing deliverables and lessons learned
- Participate in the process to continually enhance best practices for quality assurance
Benefits:
100% paid medical/dental/vision for US-based employees
