QA Performance Tester Specialist

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You are: 

The musical conductor to our automation testing efforts. Your symphony? The project. Your audience? Our clients. “Testing 1-2-3” Your mic check responsibilities include applying business requirements, Testing knowledge and technical expertise in the implementation of test automation suites to validate software application functionality. You love performing hands on design, coding, enhancing, and testing of software applications in order to meet business process requirements.  Critics and audiences are wowed by how you apply your Testing knowledge and technical expertise in the automation and quality engineering efforts of every delivery. And of course, an in-depth understanding of testing, including theory and concepts are music to your ears.

The work:

• Enables full stack solutions through multi-disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle.
• Performs continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite.
• Creates automation strategy, automated scripts and supports data and environment configuration.
• Participates in code reviews, monitors, and reports defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.
• Analyze and identify suitable opportunities for test automation.
• Carry out test automation script/cases, identify/log issues, and provide support during issue resolution process.

 

Here's what you need:

• 5 years of overall experience in software development environments 
• 3+ year's experience creating automated and/or manual test scripts
• 2+ years of JMeter experience
• Experience with API testing
• Hands on experience with Quality Assurance/Testing (application, product, system, regression testing)
• Experience with a programming language (JavaScript, C#, Python)

 

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science
• Professional work experience with automated testing tools (Load Runner or Selenium framework)
• Experience in designing / developing a test automation framework
• Previous consulting experience and understanding customer/business needs
• 508 compliance experience
• Experience conducting automation tools analysis, selection, and recommendation

Eligibility Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship required

 

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