Senior QA Engineer

DEPARTMENT: Product Development
JOB CODE: SRQAE
LOCATION: Emeryville

• Works well under tight deadlines, rapidly changing priorities, is reliable, able to manage multiple tasks, and is goal oriented
• Implement automated test solutions
• Test software applications and report problems to development team
• Write and maintain test plans, a test environment, test data, and testing tools
• Participate in the software design process
• Work with a development team to assure complete functionality of software applications

• BS/MS in CS, CE or equivalent experience
• Four or more years of work experience in software development, business analysis and/or quality assurance testing
• Strong understanding of QA principles and processes
• Strong attention to detail and clear communication in bug reports
• Hands-on experience in black box testing, including functional, regression and scalability testing for web applications on MS Windows and UNIX platforms
• Test planning, test harness design & development, test task management, and test execution on assigned projects
• Extensive experience with automated test tools especially Selenium, Badboy and JMeter although other tools are also acceptable e.g. Winrunner, Silk, or Rational Robot
• Experience with three of the following: Perl, C, Java, HTML, SSL, HTTP, MySQL
• Knowledge of Unix system essentials and Unix scripting (Alpha, Sun)
• Strong organizational and communication skills coupled
• Demonstrated ability to meet commitments
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team oriented environment
• Extensive work experience with development process and integration of QA process
• Must be able to learn quickly and apply to task at hand
• Highly effective at mentoring and developing junior engineers
• Experience with SQL queries and databases.

• Experience with Performance, Stress, Load and Scalability test methodologies, execution and reporting.
• Experience with Apache Software Foundation projects.
• Experience with web application development frameworks.
• Prior coding experience.
• Familiarity with software build and deploy processes and tools e.g. Ant
• Familiarity with software code repositories, code versioning and branching strategies.

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