Quality Assurance Engineer

Our client's online retail business is one of the largest in the world. It is also one of the fastest growing businesses for the longest sustained period of time. The millions of sellers on their websites list and manage hundreds of millions of products and the product selection they offer keeps growing week over week.

Currently this company is in need of QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEERS who want to work with systems that scale to the world. In this position, you will test the software that enables individuals and corporations to sell their products on the client's extensive web properties. This division is a core part of the business and growing at a tremendous rate.

The ideal candidate is excited about making certain the user experience is the best possible. The strength of a QA Engineer is the ability to create documentation, creatively improve the software development and QA process, and the finely honed ability to break software in unexpected ways. Candidates must be innovative, creative, flexible, self-directed, and understand quality assurance procedures and methodologies. QAEs work directly with Developers and Project Managers to ensure proper operation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

- Verify software meets the requirements
- Write test plans
- Perform manual UI testing
- Improve the software development process
- Advocate for the customer
- Contribute to process creation
- Demonstrate strong critical thinking skills

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2 to 5+ years of industry experience testing software
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience in test automation with Java, C++ or C#
- Understanding of core Internet technologies
- Experience interacting and coordinating testing amongst multiple teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with White Box testing in a Web environment highly desired
- Experience with Oracle and SQL a plus