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*Position: QA Tester with Agile* *Location: Farmington Hills, MI or Boston, MA* *Must be local, IN Person Interviews only no Skype* *12month contracts* *Please send me qualified and LOCAL candidates for these Roles* *9 POSITIONS OPEN* *Lead Exp!* *Must have Selenium/Automation, Bamboo, JMeter, Agile* Position Title: Agile Tester-Developer II Department: LRS: Tech and Devel Company Information The Technology team located in Farmington Hills MI, is responsible for the development and production support of highly scalable SaaS (Software as a Service) applications utilizing a proprietary high performance search engine to access dynamically created content. Position Summary The Agile Tester-Developer II, based in Farmington Hills, MI, will be part of the Quality Assurance team. The Agile Tester-Developer II will collaborate directly with the project teams, representing all aspects of QA for the project. The Agile Tester-Developer II must be strong in development and testing process and methodologies, and should be able to debug issues using these processes. The Agile Tester-Developer II is responsible for ensuring the Quality Standards and functionality and performance/load testing, ensuring the systems will perform as designed and handle customer loads. We are looking for an Agile Tester-Developer II with the aptitude and agility to work in an environment that is dynamic, open, and exciting. This is not a traditional “QA-comes-last” development environment. Instead, Agile Tester-Developer II’s work continuously in partnership with all other team-members to use automated as well as manual testing to ensure that the team is "Building the Right Thing" as well as "Building the Thing Right." The position will require you to quickly gain domain knowledge and work with developers and other testers in a "test-driven" development environment. This means you will be a tester/developer that will be willing to co-exist and collaborate regularly with developers providing coaching to the team and working together to create tests for many different levels of visibility. We are looking for a tester/developer who loves to learn. You will be joining a growing team. Having varied technical skills is important; however the desire to expand those skills, technologies, and experiences is even more essential. We are looking for extremely motivated individuals that have excellent analytical and communication skills, and are continually taking on new professional and technical challenges. We are looking for innovative individuals who value team work and strive to work with a company that values the highest quality software. Key Responsibilities The Agile Tester-Developer II will be responsible for: • Educating, coaching and mentoring other team members on “defect prevention” rather than just “defect detection” agile testing practices and tools. • Understand the Quality Standards and support Gale’s adoption of Agile through assimilation of QA practices in the development of low-to-no defect products o Collaborate with the agile teams to understand requirements and plan testing efforts to complement and facilitate effective execution of development projects. o Considering a fluid agile environment, business and technical requirements, risk and schedule needs, provide QA level of effort estimates for larger development projects. o As an integral agile team member, collaborate with developers to develop test plans, automated and manual tests, test code, test scripts and review and improve test plans and code design • Understand user behavior and ensure product usability as guided through Gale’s usability standards • Ensure product accessibility as guided through Gale’s accessibility standards • Helping to steer a team of agile testers, developers and business users toward collaborative, comprehensive testing that results in the highest quality software. • Working with and coaching developers to more easily create automated GUI and integration tests. • Coordinate all aspects of QA and testing for larger projects o Appropriate to each project, develop and execute test strategy, test plans, test cases, acceptance testing and test scripts o Create automation scripts for all aspects of functional testing using Cucumber, FitNesse and/or TestNG and Selenium and other QA tools as required o Be flexible and creative in handling multiple activities and contentions in priorities. • Helping foster an environment where automated GUI and integration tests complement developer unit testing in ensuring the quality of large scale solutions • Collaboration with developers in creating testable "Definition of Done" acceptance criteria for all phases of development • Designing test plans collaboratively with developers and business users early on in the iteration so as to guide development • Designing tests that clearly convey the business rules and code they are checking (i.e., Storytests or Automated Acceptance Tests), so that both business users and developers can understand their intentions. • Continuously asking questions of both developers and business users to ensure the test suite is comprehensive. • Performing manual exploratory testing of new and existing features • Developing, creating, and executing performance test plans and test cases which reflect expected usage. o Mining usage logs and creating scripts that reflect true customer usage of our systems. • Manage defect tracking and defect maintenance and perform defect root cause analysis • Coordinate with Customer Support Center. • Embrace continuous process and practice improvement o Researching New Tools and Superior Practices and suggesting new tools and processes for the agile team Requirements • Thorough understanding of the software development process and all aspects of Agile Quality Assurance. • BA or BS in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience • Pay great attention to detail • Experience writing tests in Java, JUnit, in an IDE like Eclipse (or similar unit testing experience. in a different language/IDE) o Solid OO programming and design skills o An understanding of the principles in creating easily modifiable and extensible automated test suites • Experience using test automation frameworks ie: Cucumber, FitNesse, TestNG, and Selenium • The courage to drive exploratory testing to find better ways to produce high-quality software • Demonstrated collaborative skill in pairing with agile developers o An interest in working alongside the development team, including occasional pairing • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal • Self motivated and takes initiative • Work well with cross-functional organizations • Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where overtime hours are expected to meet deadlines and fulfill customer needs. o Demonstrated ability to work effectively independently and in a team environment • The ability to make cost/benefit analysis of proposed solutions for automated testing strategies • Knowledge of Continuous Integration like CruiseControl or Jenkins • The confidence to ask the tough questions necessary to ensure continuous improvement • 3+ years experience in system level QA Testing • 2+ years experience programming in Java and/or JUnit development • 2+ years experience with Source Code Management like CVS, Git or SubVersion • 2+ years experience with Defect Management like Jira • 2+ years in an Agile environment • 1+ years experience with scripting /programming languages; • 1+ years working in a Linux command line environment • 1+ years experience in JMeter or Segue Silk Automation Tools A demonstrated working knowledge of: • Java & HTML • An understanding of the concepts of TDD and how it applies to agile testing • Automated Test Design • Selenium • Cucumber, Fitnesse and/or TestNG • Web application testing and/or Web service testing • Ability to write and understand basic SQL queries to perform data verification and set up test data • Defect Management like Jira • Configuration Management Systems & build environments • Unix/Linux • Databases • API testing, test harness creation *Thanks and Regards* *Arvind Nagar* *Sr. Technical Recruiter * *Email- [email protected] <[email protected]>* *Direct-408-457-9381 Ext-4073 !! 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