Daily Candy - QA / Automation Engineering Consultant
New York, NY
Calling all NYC web-based QA Consultants!
DailyCandy, the popular style and
trends web site, is seeking an experienced QA Consultant.
We're looking for a well-rounded QA Consultant who enjoys working
on diverse and challenging projects. The ideal candidate should be
self-motivated, able to work with little supervision, and capable
of working closely with non-technical colleagues.
Our technology team runs a number of systems, from mobile
applications to MapReduce logfile processing, all built on
open-source components. We provide a fun, relaxed environment, an
ideal place for developers to hone their skills and learn some new
ones.
Responsibilities
• Verify quality
acceptance of web-based applications across multi-platform
environments
• Create automated deployment and test
scripts
•
Apply QA principles and methodology to develop test cases and
detail test scenarios and oversee their execution, tracking, and
automation.
• Perform functional and
regression testing to manually and visually check site
quality
• Set up testing
environments with re-usable test cases
• Responsible for moving
code to testing, staging and production environments
• Guide projects through
the SDLC in a lead role
• Participate in status
meetings and help in determining “go/no-go” status of
projects
• Assist in on-going
process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution and
reporting is effective and efficient
• Review and help improve
product documentation
• Work closely with
developers to resolve issues and reproduce bugs
Key Qualifications
• BS or MS in Computer
Science degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of directly
related experience in QA and software testing, preferably
web-based, with significant test automation
experience
•
Demonstrate abilities to lead and manage large product
features from inception to production
•
Passion for testing and the ability to work independently on
diverse problems
• Ability to write,
maintain, and verify test cases. Develop test matrixes, identify
test data and use case requirements
• Production deployment
experience and sustaining team release experience
• Experience in testing
methodologies and theories (e.g. negative, white box, and stress
testing techniques), test plan development, test case design,
and test execution practices.
• Good working knowledge
of web technologies including: HTML, JavaScript,
Java, Python, Spring, Hibernate
• Hands on experience
writing SQL queries
• Excellent analytical,
interpersonal and communication (both oral and written)
skills
• Must be available and
willing to work extended hours as occasionally needed (during
crunch times!) per day or per week, including weekends and
holidays, to meet business needs
• Experienced with TDD /
BDD methodologies
• Familiar with quality
and code coverage metrics
Must
be eligible to work in the US.