US-CA-San Francisco: Sr. QA Engineer

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Date: 25-Dec-2009

Sr. QA Engineer

* Work closely with Product/Business Analysts, Functional Test QA Engineers (both Manual and Automated Test Teams), and Managers to understand the product requirements and use cases in order to deliver high quality software on schedule for production releases. * Create and execute test plans and test cases based upon functional and software design specifications. Perform ad-hoc and regression testing of system components under aggressive release schedules. * Help define, promote, and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes such as test plan reviews, defect management, risk/complexity analysis, and regression test maintenance. * Interface with 3rd parties on requirements, testing, and problem troubleshooting, as needed. * Perform tasks within area of specialization with little to no supervision. * Be responsible for following through and making sure defects are reported and escalated appropriately. * Develop and/or execute automated GUI tests and/or ensure that new functionality is automated as quickly as possible and that the complete end-to-end automated regression test suite is run continuously as part of a continuous integration process. * Perform some release engineering tasks, as needed (i.e. deploying new builds to a test environment).

Work Experience and Education Guidelines: * 5+ years of software development, testing, or quality assurance experience. * BS degree or equivalent. Core Competencies: * Solid understanding of common SWQA and SW development processes and methodologies. * Strong analytical skills in assessing user, functional, and technical requirements and documentation and identifying high risk and key test areas. * Strong problem solving and investigative skills. * Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment. * Experience testing database driven applications including data validation using SQL. * UNIX and/or Linux command line experience. * GUI test automation experience (SilkTest, ideally). * Demonstrated history of working with minimal direction, balancing and prioritizing activities to ensure critical items are addressed in a timely and professional manner. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. * Genuine enjoyment of SWQA work.

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Team SQAFYI - Software QA Resource FYI
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