*Title: Sr. QA Analyst* *Location: Emeryville, CA*
*Duration: 6 months CTH* *Experience: 8+ yrs* *QA Position 1:* *Summary:* • Own the QA processes and tools for ensuring quality in all aspects of our systems. Advocate for adherence to best quality practices. • Design, code, maintain, and extend automation testing frameworks across a range of different projects and teams. • Automate wherever possible, from regression test scripts to deployment processes to metrics reporting dashboards. • Anticipate team needs and proactively identify areas of improvement, efficiency, and new tools to incorporate into the quality process. • Ensure visibility of efforts by designing methods of tracking and reporting quality metrics across all implementations to determine the effect of changes made to various systems. • Provide guidance and support while bringing other team members up to speed on these processes and frameworks. *Description:* • The ability to lead the quality effort for a development team and be a vocal advocate of the use and adherence to best testing practices and methods. *• Strong technical competency and experience with web applications, web services, Java, JS, J2EE, XML, unit testing and DB a must.* *• Experience writing and executing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents* *• Experience using data driven tests to validate API calls in J2EE architectures* *• Experience using test automation tools like jUnit and Selenium a must.* *• Technical aptitude across a range of tools including Python, Shell, etc.* *• Strong Unix/Linux skills* *• 3+ years in OO coding or OO white box testing, preferably in the area of web-based applications. Programming experience in Java, C++ or any other OO language.* *• Experience with SOA and testing component-based architecture strongly preferred* *• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment a plus.* *• Experience working within a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM system.* *• Knowledge of the benefits and limitations of different scripting languages (such as PERL, Shell, PHP, Python, etc) and unit testing frameworks (Junit, TestNG, etc).* • Experience with NoSQL technologies (Redis, Hadoop, Hive, HBase) , Solr and other search/indexing tools. • Outstanding communication skills and attention to detail. • Bachelors or equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent (MS a plus). *QA Position 2* *Summary:* Do you yearn to test beyond the UI? Are you eager to dive deep into the code to understand how it works? We are looking for a White Box Test Engineer who is passionate about using testing backend services and technologies. This is NOT the typical black box testing position. You will code side-by-side with developers on a variety of projects to build the necessary quality infrastructure and frameworks. Your Task • Get your hands dirty designing, coding, maintaining, and extending white box testing frameworks across a range of different backend projects and teams. • Own the QA processes and tools for ensuring quality in all aspects of these backend systems. Advocate for adherence to best quality practices. • Automate wherever possible, from regression test scripts to deployment processes to metrics reporting dashboards. Anything done manually is a candidate to be automated. • Anticipate team needs and proactively identify areas of improvement, efficiency, and new tools to incorporate into the quality process. • Ensure visibility of efforts by designing methods of tracking and reporting quality metrics across all implementations to determine the effect of changes made to various systems. • Provide guidance and support while bringing other team members up to speed on these processes and frameworks. *Responsibilities:* *• The ability to code and script using common scripting and OO languages with a preference for candidates strong in Java and Junit.* *• Technical aptitude across a range of tools including Python, Shell, etc.* *• The ability to lead the quality effort for a development team and be a vocal advocate of the use and adherence to best testing practices and methods.* *• Experience working within and preferably designing tests for backend (non-UI based) systems.* *• Strong Unix/Linux skills* • Nice to have: Experience using Hadoop or other “big data” technologies, or Solr and other search/indexing tools. • 3+ years in OO coding or OO white box testing, preferably in the area of web-based applications. Programming experience in Java, C++ or any other OO language. • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment a plus. • Experience working within a fast-paced Agile/SCRUM system. • Knowledge of the benefits and limitations of different scripting languages (such as PERL, Shell, PHP, Python, etc) and unit testing frameworks (Junit, TestNG, etc). • Outstanding communication skills and attention to detail. • Bachelors or equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent (MS a plus). *Thanks & Regards, * *Vikram Raj * *Manager-Recruitment *[image: UniversalSoftware Logo 3C1] 1 Olde North Road, Chelmsford, MA - 01824 Ph: 978-770-2260 E-mail: vikr...@universal-sw.com Company Website: www.universal-sw.com *[image: cid:image002.png@01CDC315.1A0272B0]* vikramrjp *[image: cid:image003.gif@01CDC315.1A0272B0]* <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vikram-raj-singh/4a/799/163> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Business_Intelligence" group. 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