QA Engineer (Webdriver and Python/Java)

DUBLIN - QA ENGINEER - DAILY RATE - 6 MONTHS+

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Participate in the design and development of testing frameworks and technologies
- Develop test patterns to evaluate the solutions for performance, scalability, security and reliability
- Contribute to the quality of the solutions by identifying issues in architecture, design and implementation
- Suggest and influence process improvements and act as a change agent for the organization
- As part of the reporting team, work closely with the scrum teams to ensure that the architecture conforms to standards for testability, reliability, scalability and performance.
- Contribute to our Agile development process as a scrum team member from requirements analysis and design up through final feature acceptance and deployment
- Continuously increase the coverage and complexity of functional test cases using JUnit, C++ (CPPUnit) and Scripting languages (Python)

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Bachelor's degree or Master's (preferred) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
- 5 years+ in software engineering/automation/QA role
- Programming skills: C, C++, Java (Enterprise and Web Services), Scripting (Python), HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Experience with large data technologies (Hadoop, Mahout etc) or reporting systems an advantage.
- Operating systems: Excellent Linux/Unix skills, Windows
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle
- Other: TCP/IP, HTTP, Performance/Load testing Unix systems, Selenium, Eclipse, Soapui
- Solid experience with Distributed systems
- Solid experience with automated testing of a protocol-based solution
- Experience working with agile methodologies would also be of benefit.