QA automation Engineer | Acquia, Inc, commercially supported Drupal Distribution

Acquia is a new software company looking for a QA AUTOMATION ROCKSTAR to work in our Andover, MA office as a part of our amazing development team providing value added software products and services for Drupal's open source social publishing software!

We are using a test driven development process in an Agile with Scrum model. Acquia's engineering organization will be testing both its own web applications, its back-end (faceless) web services, as well as taking a strong role in building tests for Drupal on all the Drupal coding we do. Therefore, Acquia software developers must supply tested software as part of their deliverables.

Therefore, our senior QA engineers will be building the unit test and integration test framework that pulls together and automates the running of tests, as well as creating the standards for the tests that must be written (then evaluating the submitted tests to make sure they meet requirements). These team members will also be building testing frameworks to simulate Drupal operation in a variety of environments, including mixed host / mixed-OS, and build testing platforms to isolate and identify Drupal scalability / reliability / availability issues.

We consider QA engineers to be software developers, not just people who write / execute test plans. QA engineers must know how to code, and build/write automated testing frameworks as needed.
Summary of requirements

• BS in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years QA experience in web application testing.
• 3+ years Linux / Unix systems experience.
• 2+ years experience working (successfully) in a test driven development environment.
• 2+ years experience working (successfully) in an Agile/Scrum development model and experienced with the QA lifecycle in agile development environment.
• Experience with testing small and large scale web applications written on the LAMP stack. Software includes: Linux, MacOS, Windows, Apache, IIS, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, memcached, NFS, Drupal, CVS, Subversion, Xen/VMWare, etc.
• Experience with testing client-server applications running in heterogenous environments (many different OSes and configurations).
• Able to help setup test configurations of servers, software and hardware environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Will have to work closely with engineering team to recreate defects. Should be able to help debug PHP, HTML and Javascript code, MySQL queries and web server configurations. Should be able to help write basic unit/functional tests that reproduce and isolate bugs.
• Reliable, self-motivated, and motivated by the delivery of high quality software.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with demonstrated ability to work with other software developers in a test driven development environment. Should be able to write quality reports that can be shared outside the corporate firewall.

• Experience with Drupal preferred but not required.
  Feel free to call me to discuss this opportunity further . You can apply online at : http://acquia.com/about-us/contact/employment
  I can be reached at mobile: 6035-548-0293, or
  email: linda.greco@acquia.com or Drupal: linda.greco

  • Location: Andover, MA
  • Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.

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