Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Sr. QA Engineer (OAK) | Ask.com | Oakland, CA


Sr. QA Engineer (OAK) | Ask.com | Oakland, CA


Sr. QA Engineer (OAK)
(Location: Oakland, CA)
Summary
Ideal candidate will have a passion for quality products and for developing various tools, implementing processes and methods to achieve high quality, an understanding of current technologies, and has structure approach for developing test plans. We value innovation, ownership, smart risk taking while learning to improve ourselves every day.
What you will do:
  • Own the QA processes and tools for ensuring quality in all aspects of Ask systems. Advocate for adherence to best quality practices.
  • Design, code, maintain, and extend automation testing frameworks across a range of different projects and teams.
  • Automate wherever possible, from regression test scripts to deployment processes to metrics reporting dashboards.
  • Anticipate team needs and proactively identify areas of improvement, efficiency, and new tools to incorporate into the quality process.
  • Ensure visibility of efforts by designing methods of tracking and reporting quality metrics across all implementations to determine the effect of changes made to various systems.
  • Provide guidance and support while bringing other team members up to speed on these processes and frameworks.
Skills that will help you succeed:
  • The ability to lead the quality effort for a development team and be a vocal advocate of the use and adherence to best testing practices and methods.
  • Strong technical competency and experience with web applications, web services, Java, JS, J2EE, XML, unit testing and DB a must.
  • Experience writing and executing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents
  • Experience using data driven tests to validate API calls in J2EE architectures
  • Experience using test automation tools like jUnit and Selenium a must.
  • Technical aptitude across a range of tools including Python, Shell, etc.
  • Strong Unix/Linux skills
  • Bachelors or equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent (MS a plus).
Additional helpful skills:  
  • 3+ years in OO coding or OO white box testing, preferably in the area of web-based applications. Programming experience in Java, C++ or any other OO language.
  • Experience with SOA and testing component-based architecture strongly preferred
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment a plus.
  • Experience working within a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM system.
  • Knowledge of the benefits and limitations of different scripting languages (such as PERL, Shell, PHP, Python, etc) and unit testing frameworks (Junit, TestNG, etc).
  • Experience with NoSQL technologies (Redis, Hadoop, Hive, HBase) , Solr and other search/indexing tools.
  • Outstanding communication skills and attention to detail.

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