Senior QA Engineer

Our client is a hugely popular, global company building a new team in Fremont to take the eCommerce and cross-channel customer experience to the next level. We are building customer-facing multichannel applications on web, mobile, and tablet platforms. If you want to work in an Agile, collaborative environment and you are passionate about using technology to build an outstanding customer experience, we may have a position for you on our team!

Position Summary
The Senior QA Engineer is responsible for establishing and maintaining QA practices, writing test scenarios and executing tests, both manually and with automated tools. The Senior QA Engineer will work with a small, collaborative team of seasoned QA engineers and business partners in the Marketing and eCommerce teams.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Participate in the design and implementation process of new and existing products
- Lead medium to large enterprise projects from QA standpoint and provide technical leadership to other QA engineers
- Define and implement Black Box, White Box and automated testing suites for core technologies, products and web-based applications.
- Develop and maintain test scripts.
- Write and maintain test automation scripts where applicable.
- Test data and perform business applications functional system, integration (end-to-end) tests for new and existing applications.
- Participate in review and approval process of project deliverables.
- Advise project teams on appropriate approaches to testing delivered products, including test tool sets.
- Provide guidance to development and project teams on the creation of a master test plan and other testing related deliverables.
- Assist project teams on identifying the needs for appropriate test environments and coordinate the establishment of appropriate test environments.
- Oversee processes for identifying, tracking and reporting the results of test procedures.
- Assist in populating and maintaining regression test databases.
- Perform regression testing using existing scripts.
- Find, track and prioritize bugs and work toward their resolution.
- Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
- Participate in the testing of production emergency bug fixes.
- Perform rotating on-call support duties and periodically participate in after-hours release testing.
- Participate in release production validation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of testing Back End systems and eCommerce systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant engineering degree
- Experience with SDLC and testing methodologies, including functional, regression and system testing
- Experience testing software at API level
- Experience writing XML, PL/SQL, Java, Shell and Perl scripts to automate testing tasks
- Experience using Oracle, Unix based systems
- Experience developing tools to aid in testing Client Server and web applications
- Demonstrated knowledge of relational databases and browser capabilities and constraints
- Strong self-motivation and self-direction
- Strong customer-service orientation
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
- Ability to conduct research into application development issues and products
- Keen attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize, execute tasks, and deliver results on time
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, and collaborative environment
- Dependability and a strong work ethic

PREFERRED SKILLS

- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Master's degree preferred