SQA Engineer - Automation, Testing, Software Quality

Responsibilities:

* Perform complex data validation tasks
* Identify software defects, run test suites, and verify fixes
* Design detailed black and white box test strategies, test cases, scripts and suites
* Enter and update bugs in our defect tracking system (JIRA)
* Leverage defect metrics to improve development and testing practices
* Develop test automation for validating accuracy and completeness of functional test cases and/or performance/load testing
* Develop automated unit, functional and performance test suites
* Help evolve and define team, engineering and QA process improvements
* Triage defects/issues found in production
* Other duties as may be assigned

Required Skills:

* High quality SQL language skills, ability to write and troubleshoot complex SQL statements
* Strong database experience, MySQL preferred
* Ability to code in one or more commonly used programming languages and scripting languages
* Strong command line skills on more than one operating system (Mac, Linux, Windows)
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Experience diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues
* Ability to work at both detailed and abstract levels
* Ability to develop automated custom QA solutions without relying on commercial software packages
* Ability to solve problems creatively
* Comfort working in a distributed team
* High productivity
* Willingness and ability to create and adapt to new technologies
* Ability to launch new projects and follow through to completion
* Desire to solve real problems for real users
* Motivated by making customers happy
* Experience developing and executing manual and automated test suites
* Familiarity with QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design and execution
* Working knowledge of some or all of the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, user interface automated testing.
* Experience testing web-based enterprise applications
* Familiarity with multiple browsers and multiple versions
* Skilled in browser and server side test automation
* Passion for quality assurance of end-user applications

Experience and Education:

* 5-8 of years experience
* BS/BA requiredTo find out more about Real Staffing please visit www.realstaffing.com