Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Back-End/C++, Python)

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“Come join our dynamic and talented Quality Assurance team in a hands-on technical role supporting different suite of applications and services.  As a QA Engineer at FICO, you will be part of an expanding and highly valued software development team which is developing cutting edge analytic software for high profile customers across a wide variety of industries using the latest technologies and software development methodologies” - Sr Director, Software Quality Assurance

What You’ll Contribute

• Develop test plan and test strategy meeting functional requirements, user stories and user acceptance criteria.
• Participate in release planning and product roll-out.
• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing (both "black" and "grey" box). Execute application, usability, functional, regression and performance testing for business applications in a client/server environment.
• Review, author and maintain flexible and maintainable automated test scripts to support back-end QA automation.
• Identify and analyze issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues.
• Communicate product readiness, generation of quality metrics, level of quality, and results to Quality Assurance Management and the project team.
• Identify gaps in the quality assurance and testing processes, generate solutions, and actively address them for continuous improvement.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Applications Systems Design, or other related Data Processing field of study.
• 8+ years' experience in the software quality assurance industry with strong QA process knowledge.
• Excellent testing skills and experience with commercial software development processes, SaaS or ASP (Application Service Provider) for browser-based applications, client/server application and database driven applications on Unix/Linux, Windows.
• Demonstrable project management experience in successfully delivering multiple testing engagements, preferably in a global organization.
• Strong with RDBMS and NoSQL skills with the ability to generate complex queries.
• Ability to develop and implement test automation strategies.
• Collaborate with development and Product management team for current and future releases.
• Proficiency with test management tools like QTEST, JIRA, Quality Center.
• Proficiency in QA concepts and methodologies.
• Proficiency in C++/C or python.
• Proficiency in GitHub/SVN.
• Ability to explore new/latest testing tools as per the product requirement.
• Should have hands on experience in migration, upgrade, integration, end to end testing
• Should have hands on experience in building automation framework for GUI and API/Webservices.
• Should have good knowledge and experience in Agile methodology and related processes.
• Should have knowledge and experience for working in Unix and Database.
• Good to have knowledge of performance tools like Apache Jmeter, Load, Soak, Stress, Spike etc.
• Good to have CI/CD tools knowledge for e.g. Jenkins.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $112,000 to $176,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
   

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — More than 90% of US credit decisions involve the FICO Score.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment