Responsibilities

• Analyzes requirements and designs to assist Development in design process, to look at overall project.
• Provides reliable and accurate task estimates for assigned work without necessary review.
• Implements fundamental automation, test tools, and/or SQA process for assigned projects/systems.
• Documents test cases thoroughly, and provide feedback to development on technical documentation (other engineers may use this documentation as a guideline for testing and training).
• Assists in the review of technical documentation by working closing with Development teams.
• Regresses complicated bugs in existing systems, and aids in troubleshooting live issues, as requested.
• Coordinates the communication of bug resolution as well as occasionally hosting bug triages to help determine priority.
• Conducts automation and test tool code reviews, as well as test plan reviews for Engineers and other SDET’s.
• Collaborates with development on technical design discussions on own systems and contributes heavily to design discussions of others’ systems.
• Shows strong initiative in seeking out opportunities to identify and deal with issues in both the systems they own as well as the systems other people own.
• Assists in mentoring and/or educating junior engineers in best practices, proprietary technology, and in newest technology and methods.
• Contributes to SQA policy-making discussions as requested.
• Works independently with minimal direction.

Qualifications

• Typically has 5-8 years of professional QA engineering experience with a strong automation background.
• Has expert knowledge of the appropriate programming languages (PHP Web Services, Javascript, Pytrhon) and of the technical architecture of the project.
• Proficient at coding in Python and using the following tools (Groovy, Selenium, JIRA or Eclipse IDE).
• Expert knowledge of SQL (MySQL), Linux/Unix.
• Possesses the experience and capacity to develop and maintain multiple systems (including test strategies, test cases/plans, and tools) at the same time.
• Is competent in concepts of Quality Assurance and software development, Agile and Test Driven Development.