Quality Assurance Engineer

We are looking for a strong QA Engineer to own and drive quality for our client's trade-in software development process. The QAE identifies use cases and creates test plans, defines test strategies and creates test cases to validate software design via manual and automated tests.

THE QAE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

- Functional regression testing
- Integration testing and automation
- Identification of scaling and security issues for distributed, service-oriented software systems using Java/C++/C#, SQL, Perl, Python, and JavaScript
- User-level automation using tools such as Selenium
- Finding opportunities for improvements in systems, tools and processes
- Driving improvements across the development groups
- Working closely with the development groups that enhance and maintain the applications that make up the product and the underlying services that drive them
- Writing automated tests with Scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools
- Understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning
- Developing test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, and test execution and reporting.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's in CS or related field + 5 years of experience or Master's and 2 years of experience in software quality assurance
- Knowledge of Scripting languages such as SQL, Perl, Python, XML or Ruby
- Ability to write code in C, C++ or Java
- Familiarity with automation testing tools such as Selenium, QTP, LoadRunner or Win Runner
- Excellent QA aptitude and ability to drive process improvements
- Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools
- Ability to write test plans and test strategy documents
- Ability to understand functional/technical specifications and analyze data
- Strong organizational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail, including the ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience in testing systems built on three tier architecture and web technologies
- Experience in using APIs and Web Services for testing service oriented architecture

This is a 6 month contract position.