QA Engineer

Job Description:

• Contribute to the design and architecture of software solutions, ensuring they are amenable to test.
• Planning of tests, including the definition and management of suitable test data, and managing the trade-offs for thoroughness/completeness vs. development & maintenance effort on one hand and time to execute on the other.
• Writing great software to support agile software engineering practices (e.g., TDD, continuous integration, automated tests, etc.)
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills
• Reduce friction and latency in the development cycle through automation and immediate feedback; not only test but also build, deployment, monitoring, etc.
• Ensure that our applications can scale to match huge demand across the world. Sweat about milliseconds of response time and obsess over the next 1 percent of efficiency.
• Collaborating with product owners, stakeholders and potentially globally distributed teams.
• Work cross-functional in an Agile environment.

Job Requirements:

• Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, Web Standards and experience testing REST-based APIs.
• Experience configuring Jenkins and extending it with custom plug-ins.
• Technical knowledge of the least one major RDBMS, preferably SQL Server.
• Familiarity with client-side MVC frameworks.
• Strong verbal communications, cross-group collaboration skills, analytical, structured and strategic thinking.
• Experience with at least one major server-side web development stack, preferably ASP.NET
• Understanding of enterprise-level automation needs and solutions (parallelism, distribution, etc.)
• Expert in automating UI tests with Selenium and Ruby.

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience with xUnit type frameworks (JUnit, NUnit, etc.)
• At least 2 years of experience testing software and web applications in an agile environment.