QA Engineer

Role: QA Engineer

Location: Boston, MA (Onsite)

Full time

Technical/Functional Skills

• Extensive "hands-on" experience where applicable with:
• Relational database concepts, SQL queries
• Basic unix commands
• Software testing tools such as Cucumber, LoadRunner, Postman, RestClient, SoapUI
• Ability to understand complex system architectures as applied to QA goals
• 5+ years' experience with back-end web testing and writing automated test scripts
• Knowledge of most of the following technologies/tools (or equivalents): Java, JUnit, JMeter, LoadRunner, Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Fish Eye)

Responsibilities

• Provide an automated testing solution
• Create and manage test strategies for complex test assignments
• Provide a well-defined and representative automated test environment
• Continually research and improve our automated testing practices
• Work closely with other members of the team automating testing within the core build/continuous-integration lifecycle
• Provide summary and analysis of test results, including metrics as/when applicable, and design additional metrics as required
• Work closely with other members of development helping them with load testing efforts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science (Master's Degree preferred)