Quality Assurance Specialist
January 20, 2011 11:57 AM

The Quality Assurance Specialist serves as a software quality assurance lead, a business analyst, and a liaison between Customer Care and the software development team.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Perform front and back-end system, integration and regression testing for a suite of web-based applications.
• Develop strategy for test cases, test plans, test schedules, automated testing and scripting using Selenium or other similar automation toolset.
• Author, implement, and execute individual test cases both manually and through automated tools.
• Provide breakdown of QA tasks and time estimates for project planning.
• Train team members on application functionality, processes and QA tools.
• Attend Product Design meetings and assess testability and suitability of requirements against existing product paradigms and user expectations. Develop and document both business requirements and test cases.
• Attend weekly Development meetings to represent quality assurance process and code stability.
• Work with development to triage existing bugs and ensure that bugs, enhancements, and change requests follow the established lifecycle.
• Manage lifecycle exceptions to minimize risk and address company needs.
• Determine and communicate stability of releases with known risks prior to release ultimately determining when a release is ready for production.

Desired Skills:
• Java, JavaScript, Ajax, Tomcat, Spring, Oracle, Linux, ColdFusion
• B.S./M.S. Degree in applicable field, preferably Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent experience in applicable fields.
• Selenium or other similar QA automation toolsets
• Familiarity or experience with Trac project and issue tracking tool for software development
• Familiarity with SVN source control and supporting processes and methodology
• Ability to perform Web application testing across all major browsers and operating systems: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, MS Windows, MAC OSX, etc.

Job Type: Contract, Contract to hire.

payscale: In line with experience. $30-$40/hour $50k-$70k
job type: contract
posted by J-DeZoet to Software/QA/DBA/Etc

This job has been filled.

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