Quality Assurance Specialist -DRUPAL- NYC
Our client, a leading provider of communication tools for the financial and insurance industries has an opportunity for a Quality Assurance Specialist. This position is based in Downtown Manhattan, NYC.
This is a full-time, direct-hire employment situation.
Not a contract.
No H1bs, no third parties, no relocation, no virtual office
POSITION SUMMARY
You will be responsible for designing and developing automated tests and testing procedures, while working with both the inhouse and offshore development teams. You will have strong lab management experience. You will keep your team apprised of current trends within the test automation tools market and make recommendations that will improve / enhance testing automation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Work in SCRUM development environment, emphasis on the following technologies:
Drupal MANDATORY
JBOSS
Apache
Java
Php
Work on a team of QA and Software testers in a SCRUM environment.
You will be responsible for designing and developing a cost effective, long-term automation strategy promoting reusable components, low maintenance costs, high efficiency and scalability.
Design, research and develop components of test architecture.
Design an infrastructure to validate the requirements, functionality and performance goals for the particular product
Identify the bottlenecks in the system during architecture and design
Interact with project management, other engineering teams, and other stakeholders as appropriate.
Develop practices and select tools to facilitate test-driven development with a high-degree of test automation for a highly scalable, mission-critical communications solutions used in trading floors
Design the automated testing framework and work with the entire architecture group to define and guide the overall architectural direction, especially from the Quality and testability perspective.
Design the performance test harness for execution on automated, performance, and endurance testing platforms
Work with and support off-shore automation development resources, as well as contracted “on-site†personnel resources when required.
Interact with development engineers to design and implement functional, performance interface applications when necessary.
Work with automation tool vendors in the implementation of in-house simulator applications to effectively function within automation environments.
Be responsible for the specification and installation of required hardware and software for automation projects.
Conduct documentation reviews for performance automation documents developed by QA engineers.
Specify automation platform operation: automation servers, operating systems, simulator applications, automaton applications, and future automation environments.
Plan and manage rollouts of enhancement and maintenance upgrades to performance automation platforms when necessary.
EDCUATION, EXPERIENCE and SKILLS requirements
BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is required, Masters preferred.
Required:
Minimum of 5 years of recent experience in the full life cycle of product development environments in planning, code development and implementation efforts, utilizing industry standard performance automation tools such as Quick Test Professional (QTP), WinRunner and/or Load Runner.
At least 3 years experience working with offshore resources, preferably in a lead role
Solid understanding of UNIT, white-box, functional, system, performance, technical and operational testing and tools utilization.
3+ years experience in building complex functions and methods in a product development environment.
3+ years experience in developing simulator applications that drive physical devices that are subsequently controlled by an industry standard automation tool, such as QTP, Winrunner and LoadRunner
3+ years performance analysis experience; full life cycle test, writing test plans, developing test strategies, implementing test strategies, stress testing, performance testing, endurance testing.
Experience in parallel development and continuous integration, like SCRUM or Agile.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to analyze and balance facts, priorities, and alternatives to make sound decisions and recommendations.
Required Skills area:
release management processes
QA, SQA, quality assurance, software testing methodologies, standards and best practices
databases and database querying tools (preferably SQL. MySQL, Oracle)
programming languages
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to evaluate past decisions to improve effectiveness of future decisions and development efforts.
Ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts to all levels of the organization.
Outstanding problem solving skills, including the ability to look for non-standard problem solutions, this is key to this position.
Ability to learn and apply new technologies and learn and understand details of third party applications and technologie
