Sr Quality Engineer #2013-3829 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

Sr Quality Engineer #2013-3829 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

2013-3829

Posting Job Title 

Sr Quality Engineer

Job Location 

US-IL-Chicago

Category 

Technology

More information about this job:

Overview:

• Senior Quality Engineers are proficient and effective professional software engineers in test.  In addition to developing their technical depth and expanding their technical breadth they also demonstrate broader business awareness and are able to translate business need into technical reality.  Their work product is thorough, effective, and elegant.  Equally they recognize the need for rapid feedback and appropriately balance time, scope, and quality in pursuit of delivering customer value and obtaining valuable feedback.  When operating successfully the senior engineer is responsibility for consistently supporting delivery of high quality and functional software; serving the needs of our business and customers.

Responsibilities:

Technical Depth:

• Collaborates with the feature team to define acceptance criteria, ensures that the team's acceptance criteria for stories and tasks is appropriate and being met universally.
• Designs test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy
• Understand and have experience in performance testing techniques and operational testing (Availability, Reliability, Fault Management, Capacity Management, Configuration and security testing) techniques
• Solid understanding of FCAPS paradigm
• Able to identify new techniques and tools for difficult-to-automate areas
• Consistently automates at the right layer, using the right tools
• Defines standards for automated testing to be used across the organization
• Forecast, tests, and measures their application's performance signature.
• Leads peer review sessions and teaches others by example on how to critique technical deliverables.
• Demonstrates precision and accuracy in estimating and subsequently delivering within sprints.
• Adheres to technical standards and participates in standard evolution.

Learning and Development:

• Reads industry periodicals including magazines, wikis, and blogs.
• Reads books which are relevant to the profession.
• Identifies training opportunities and utilizes them appropriately.
• Able to systematically and rapidly understand a sub-system which falls outside of their current area of expertise. Includes being able to document and ask appropriate and insightful questions.
• Recognized as leaders in the Agile in the large practice and regularly contribute to the evolution of this practice.
• Knows where and how to ask for assistance.

Influence:

• Shows how they make decisions based on data, fact, and reality.
• Capable of presenting data and information in a logical and compelling manner.
• Shows the value-of and their ability-to effect change through collaboration.
• Effectively able to operate within their team and broader peer group.
• Able to engage with technical resources on other teams to determine solutions and drive to results

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION

• BS or MSc in Computer Science or equivalent
• QA certification highly desirable

EXPERIENCE

• 7-10 years experience in software QA/QE with focus on testing enterprise-class applications web applications.
• 5-7 years of experience in operational testing including performance, configuration, capacity, fault management, reliability, availability and capacity testing
• 1-3 years experience as a software engineer
• 1-3 years of experience implementing successful automated testing strategies and tools, preferably an open source Interactive tool set.
• Deep knowledge of systems testing techniques and operational testing techniques; knowledge of regression testing techniques and methodologies.
• Experience in the travel industry is desirable.

 PERSONAL SKILLS 

• Assertive individual who knows how to help drive software development process maturity and is able to clearly communicate goals, decisions and recommendations to appropriate parties.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate staff to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent team building skills, including cross-functional team building.
• Negotiation skills
• Relationship Management
• Analytical skills

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