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US-CA-South San Francisco: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
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Date: 07-Apr-2009
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
The Senior QA Engineer is responsible for overseeing Functional and System testing of the core Introscope product and will work closely with the QA Managers to drive testing of the product across a wide variety of environments encompassing the latest application servers, and databases across a wide variety of operating systems and hardware platforms. In addition to overseeing test case scoping, design, and execution, the Senor QA Engineer will also function as an individual contributor for particularly challenging projects and serve as a primary technical point of contact, and mediate software defects with Development.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and run specialized tests to observe product scalability, fault tolerance, stability and quality
Develop and run functional and integration tests to ensure that the features delivered in the product work correctly
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to team members
Set milestones, estimates for assigned tasks and deadlines based on that for testing projects
Make commitments internally and externally and ensure that they are met
Develop test plans Ensure on-time delivery of planned testing
Review Solution Specifications detailing product functionality
Estimate and scope System Testing from Solution Specifications and review team estimates
Ensure Test Case design and execution methodologies are technically sound
Continually increase the complexity and test coverage of System, Functional and Stress tests
Perform hands-on testing for complex features or on demand
Analyze defect queues for duplicate or inaccurate categorizations
Convey status in cross functional meetings in Managers absence
Troubleshoot problems with application server, database, operating system setup
Identify areas to improve testing efficiency
Drive the adoption of custom software testing tools to test the product
Develop new testing approaches to accommodate tight schedules and resource constraints
Minimum Requirements:
7+ years of QA and/or Performance Testing / Development
3+ years team lead experience
BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Strong knowledge of System Testing
3+ years white box testing, preferably java applications
2+ years of object oriented software development
Outstanding attention to detail
Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
Strong Windows and Unix background
Strong knowledge of automation tools, especially SilkTest
Ability to accurately identify software use cases and edge cases
Ability to troubleshoot software / hardware configuration problems
Ability to develop a clear and concise testing strategy
Expert knowledge of web application design and testing
Strong knowledge of J2EE Technologies (e.g. JSP, Servlets, EJB, JDBC Drivers)
Considered a strong plus if the candidate has prior Java / J2EE development experience
Considered a strong plus if the candidate is familiar with .NET Technology: ASP.Net 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0, C#, Visual Basic, (C/C++ a plus, SQL Server 2000/2005 ), NUnit experience
Experience testing Multi tier Web Applications developed using the .Net Framework , VMWare
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Team SQAFYI - Software QA Resource FYI
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