A champion for quality: own and drive the overall end-to-end quality for a product.

Influences engineering designs and solutions to ensure quality and testability of products and services.

Helps define overall test strategy and plan with emphasis on automating as much as possible.

Creates automated tests APIs with re-usability in mind.

Reads code to troubleshoot and isolate defects.

Work closely with Development Engineers to build-in quality during development, including actively driving increased code and test coverage.

Provides proactive guidance during all stages of development lifecycle influencing specific project outcomes with the goal of defect prevention.

QUALIFICATIONS:

BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

5+ years experience in fast-paced software development.

Experience in test automation: Create/maintain/execute automated test APIs. Apply automation throughout the SDLC to drive efficiencies.

Web Services experience: XML, SOAP and REST.

Practical knowledge with SQL.

Whitebox testing experience.

Familiarity with Linux environment.

Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Solid software engineering skills: Object Oriented Design and Programming.

Familiarity with Agile Development: Creating Test Plan and Tests in lock-step with development.

Excellent written and communication skills.

PLUS SKILLS:

Robot Framework Automation and/or Selenium/Webdriver.

Working experience with Apache web server and JBoss application server.

Java, Python, or Ruby development.

Experience with large scale, high volume web-based transactions.

Performance testing with JMeter.

Security testing.

Automation framework creation and extension development.