The QA Engineer requires good judgment and the ability to perform multiple tasks and workflows.  You will be developing the test framework, driving the test planning, test design, and test implementation and regularly communicating results with the engineering team.  This person will provide support to the QA team members and will interact frequently with the development and operations teams to investigate and resolve problems.  This person must work with the entire technical team from Product Development, Customer Experience and Operations to optimize testing at the project level.  The candidate must be comfortable in a large mission-critical, distributed computing environment using the UNIX operating system and the Internet.  The candidate should be a resourceful problem solver with good communication, organizational and analytical skills.

Responsibilities:

• Review technical documentation related to software releases


• Create test cases based on high-level and technical requirements.


• Execute test cases detailed in test documentation.


• Detect and report the software code and design errors of multiple, on-going software releases


• Report status of testing tasks to Test Manager and Project Manager


• Communicate with developers and Product Management to clarify/understand requirements


• 5-10 years experience in the software development lifecycle and software testing.


• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.


• Experience with defect tracking tools such as Test Director.


• Experience with SQL and UNIX is a plus.


• Ability to work independently in an Agile Software life cycle environment.


• Good (English) oral and written communications, analytical and interpersonal skills.


• Experience with automated testing tools like WATIR is a plus.