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Job title

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Company Irvine Technology Corp
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, California, Mountain View
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 6/30/2008
Description
If you are mid-to-senior level Software Quality Assurance Engineer and you are interested in working for a growing, fun, fast-paced company with a dynamic culture, morale, and workplace environment then we just may have the opportunity for you!!

Our client is a Social Networking' company located in the Bay Area that provides a trusted and secure way to synchronize and manage address books and personal information on multiple platforms. This a full-time direct placement opportunity with a competitive annual salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including free cable TV and a company matching 401K plan!

They are in search of Quality Assurance Engineer with a solid (2-5 years) manual testing background. Experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment would be ideal. Looking for someone who is flexible and proactive and not set in their ways. Releases are often in 24 hours so you have little time to write test plans and test cases so you need to be open and versatile. Responsibilities will include:

--> Close collaboration with development and product management teams to define, develop, and execute, test plans, test cases, and create test data.
--> Identify and communicate strategy for testing methodologies.
--> Review and report on test progress, status, risks, issues and coverage, and meet test completion and delivery milestones that you help define.
--> Create and maintain documentation for testing activities, this includes writing test plans and high level test cases to ensure adequate test coverage, as well as modifying test cases in accordance with changing requirements and designs.
--> Perform functional, integration, regression, data validation, cross-platform and end-to-end testing. This includes manual testing of web applications for compatibility in multiple web browsers for css/html/server side code problems, usability issues, and performance issues.Understand software defects; be able to identify, report, prioritize, reproduce and validate issues.
--> Work closely with developers to resolve issues.
--> Build relationships between development and production teams through communication, cooperation, and teamwork. Work with core teams during all phases of the product life cycle.
--> Contribute to setting and evaluating milestone criteria such that product is released on schedule with high quality.
--> Evaluate completeness and effectiveness of developer's unit tests
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Experience/Skills
Required Skills & Experience

--> 2+ years of experience in Web server technology.
--> Strong interest and enthusiasm for testing web applications.
--> 3+ years of experience in QA, both black and gray box testing techniques.
--> Good understanding of Web Infrastructures, HTML and SQL queries. Familiarity with relational databases (MSSQL,mysql).
--> Experience in client server based testing.
--> Cross platform experience is preferred (Windows, Macintosh).
--> Need to be self-directed, detailed oriented, patient and enjoy problem solving/troubleshooting.
--> Strong knowledge of QA methodology, processes, and tools.
--> Ability to handle multiple projects, work in a fast paced, agile, team environment with ambiguous specifications and minimal supervision.
--> Outstanding organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
--> Ability to produce well-written test documentation.
--> Design and coding skills in Java and/or a scripting language such as Python or Perl; skills in vi, ssh, SQL.
--> Experience in short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and have worked on a product that was actually released for public consumption.
--> Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent


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Software Quality Assurance Engineer
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