Job Summary
- Company
- Tripwire, Inc.
- Location
- Portland, OR 97204
- Industries
- Computer Software
- Job Type
- Full Time
- Employee
QA Engineer
About the Job
Tripwire is industry-recognized for its enterprise-level configuration control software. Tripwire's leading product, Tripwire Enterprise, is the first to combine configuration assessment with configuration change auditing in a single solution. Tripwire Enterprise helps IT ensure the organization achieves and maintains configurations in an operationally optimized, compliant and secure state-and helps them prove it. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Tripwire has operations in 15 countries around the world. Tripwire was recently named to the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private 100 List and Oregon Business Magazine named it one of the 100 Best Companies in Oregon.
Position Title: QA Engineer
Department: R & D
Closing Date: Open until filled
Location: Portland, OR
Summary:
The Quality Assurance Engineer will work in a team environment to identify potential problems early in the software development lifecycle and assist in all aspects of the Quality Assurance process. S/he will provide usability and testability input to the design process, design and execute test cases and procedures for specific components of a larger project, and will also review, maintain, and execute test procedures written by others on the team. S/he will write clear, concise defect reports and verify fixed defects as assigned. Additionally, the QA Engineer will work with Technical Support to resolve customer issues.
Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other relevant degree, or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum of five years experience in software testing and quality assurance, including firm understanding of the role of QA in the software development lifecycle.
• Minimum of one year experience testing cross-platform, enterprise class, distributed applications.
• Self-starter attitude with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Power-user level competency on at least one test platform with demonstrated familiarity with at least one additional platform (Windows Server, Solaris,Linux).
• Experience installing an operating system from scratch.
• Experience using one or more scripting languages (batch files, Unix Shell, Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.) in software test automation.
• Experience administering or testing with VMware Virtual Center, vCenter Server and/or ESX a plus.
• Experience writing code, unit test code, and automated test scripts is a plus
• Experience testing J2SE and J2EE applications a plus.
• Experience with structured or object-oriented programming languages a plus (C/C++, Java).
Tripwire is an equal opportunity employer in all personnel practices, including recruitment, advertising, hiring, participating in training and development programs, promotion and upgrading, layoff and termination, pay and other forms of compensation, insurance, worker's compensation and other benefits. We are committed to affirmative action and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, Vietnam-era veteran or other eligible veteran status, or any other unlawful forms of discrimination.
Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
Our preference at Tripwire is to recruit candidates directly. We do partner with a limited number of preferred agencies when we identify a need for third party staffing support. We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will pay a fee only if the candidate is presented after there is a signed recruiting agreement in place between Tripwire and the agency and only if we have explicitly engaged the agency to submit resumes for a specific current opening. We do not pay fees for unsolicited candidates submitted to Tripwire or any Tripwire employee by email, fax, phone, mail, verbal referral or any other means. In the case of candidates submitted to Tripwire without a signed agreement in place or without being solicited to work on a specific open requisition, Tripwire explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those unsolicited candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.No employee of Tripwire has any authority to modify the terms of this notice, or waive the requirement that a written engagement be in place prior to submitting solicited any obligation to pay any recruiting fees.
Position Title: QA Engineer
Department: R & D
Closing Date: Open until filled
Location: Portland, OR
Summary:
The Quality Assurance Engineer will work in a team environment to identify potential problems early in the software development lifecycle and assist in all aspects of the Quality Assurance process. S/he will provide usability and testability input to the design process, design and execute test cases and procedures for specific components of a larger project, and will also review, maintain, and execute test procedures written by others on the team. S/he will write clear, concise defect reports and verify fixed defects as assigned. Additionally, the QA Engineer will work with Technical Support to resolve customer issues.
Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other relevant degree, or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum of five years experience in software testing and quality assurance, including firm understanding of the role of QA in the software development lifecycle.
• Minimum of one year experience testing cross-platform, enterprise class, distributed applications.
• Self-starter attitude with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Power-user level competency on at least one test platform with demonstrated familiarity with at least one additional platform (Windows Server, Solaris,Linux).
• Experience installing an operating system from scratch.
• Experience using one or more scripting languages (batch files, Unix Shell, Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.) in software test automation.
• Experience administering or testing with VMware Virtual Center, vCenter Server and/or ESX a plus.
• Experience writing code, unit test code, and automated test scripts is a plus
• Experience testing J2SE and J2EE applications a plus.
• Experience with structured or object-oriented programming languages a plus (C/C++, Java).
Tripwire is an equal opportunity employer in all personnel practices, including recruitment, advertising, hiring, participating in training and development programs, promotion and upgrading, layoff and termination, pay and other forms of compensation, insurance, worker's compensation and other benefits. We are committed to affirmative action and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, Vietnam-era veteran or other eligible veteran status, or any other unlawful forms of discrimination.
Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
Our preference at Tripwire is to recruit candidates directly. We do partner with a limited number of preferred agencies when we identify a need for third party staffing support. We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will pay a fee only if the candidate is presented after there is a signed recruiting agreement in place between Tripwire and the agency and only if we have explicitly engaged the agency to submit resumes for a specific current opening. We do not pay fees for unsolicited candidates submitted to Tripwire or any Tripwire employee by email, fax, phone, mail, verbal referral or any other means. In the case of candidates submitted to Tripwire without a signed agreement in place or without being solicited to work on a specific open requisition, Tripwire explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those unsolicited candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.No employee of Tripwire has any authority to modify the terms of this notice, or waive the requirement that a written engagement be in place prior to submitting solicited any obligation to pay any recruiting fees.
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