Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Our client is a hugely popular online retail company seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to work on applications for the Retail Customer Experience Quality Assurance team. These systems need to meet remarkably high standards of quality, performance and reliability, operating around the clock on a massive scale. You are a talented, detail, oriented and enthusiastic SQA who is passionate about quality and enthusiastic about the new cutting-edge technology offered to consumers.

The SQA Engineer will test code at the user level, both manually and with automated tools. This SQA Engineer will not be a pure Black Box tester, but more like a grey box, able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with Perl/Java scripts and/or user-level automated tools. The candidate will work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. S/He will also work with groups such as Product Management, User Interaction, and Customer Support to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests and drive the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
- 5 or more years of QA experience
- Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools
- Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files
- Experience in UI automation
- Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings
- Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and ability to synthesize the results
- Creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness