Sr. QA Engineer 1

Job Description

Description

Senior Quality Engineer - Mobile:

The senior QE will test the Shutterfly mobile apps, certify & approve new features and flows and support mobile apps production issues.

He/she will lead the testing effort of a business perspective area, while working with a global team of product managers, developers and quality engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Test cutting-edge mobile app technology solutions for social exchange and expression.
• Conduct initial manual testing of new features to ensure correct architecture.
• Design test plans, write end to end test cases and explore various analytic tools.
• Use testing tools for code coverage, memory tools, application, database and performance tools.
• Perform API level testing, have good knowledge of sniffers and POSTMAN or equivalent.
• Implement scripts and SQL (/Athena) queries for testing databases, run automated test cases, while understanding the context.
• Communicate QE status effectively and objectively.
• Conduct white box and gray box testing.
• Own and drive software quality assurance lifecycle as part of SCRUM/Agile processes and deliver high quality releases on time.
• Actively participate in agile meetings with product and program management and engineering, sometimes internationally.
• Interact with business product managers to clarify requirements and drive projects to ensure on-time completion.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage by filing extensive bugs, defects and improvements and verifying their fixes.
• Inform manager in a timely and clear manner regarding progress on tasks and of issues needing immediate remediation or escalation.
• Highly flexible attitude and ability to quickly shift gears when priorities change.
• Maintain high responsiveness and excellent cross team collaboration.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in the field of Quality Engineering of agile projects.
• Passionate about QA.
• Knowledge of unit testing, integration testing & functional testing.
• Experience with mobile applications, basic networking & client/server interactions.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Team player attitude with ability to work in a multi-tasking cross-collaborative fast paced environment- proactively driving other people for the common goal. Not a shy person.
• Strong organization and time management skills while working in a rapid software development environment.
• Must be able to identify and learn new technologies quickly.
• Solid Java programming skills. written automated tests in Selenium/Appium.

Preferred:

• Prior experience with RestAssured, HTTP Client/Jersey Client, JSON object parsers, mock frameworks.
• Prior experience with load and performance testing.

Solid experience as a mobile QA engineer, working on iOS/Android.