JUNIOR-MID LEVEL QA Test Engineer with Unix and SQL testing

Summary

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator and IT service provider headquartered in Chantilly, VA. They are seeking a Junior-Mid Level QA Test Engineer to ensure the quality of their enterprise web solutions, design test plans, and collaborate with Agile teams to find and fix defects.

Responsibilities

• Work in a cutting edge agile software development environment to ensure the quality of our enterprise web solutions
• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures
• Communicate with product analyst in creating acceptance tests as part of the requirements, and execute those tests manually, as well as automate them
• Manage the agile team's test case inventory
• Work proactively with members of an Agile team to find and fix defects in our product architecture
• Produce and maintain test coverage reports for functional and automation coverage
• Analyze defects / test results and be able to deduct the chain of events leading to a failure
• Provide feedback on how to improve our product solutions, tools and other technical software features
• Participate in the constant improvement of our Test Automation, and Continuous Integration practices
• Write SQL code as part of data setup, as well as to verify test results in manual and automated testing
• Talk directly with real customers to make sure your great products deliver real business value
• Integrate customer feedback into our products

Skills

• Strong SQL, Unix and manual testing
• Good understanding of OO languages, including foundation in C#/Java
• Technical degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Quality Assurance methodologies and software testing
• 3– 5 years of experience as a Software Test Engineer or Software QA Engineer
• Knowledge of software test case design techniques like boundary value, decision table, pairwise, state transition, use case testing
• Ability to write intermediate SQL code
• Ability to write code in an object-oriented language, such as C#, Java
• Understand quality assurance methodologies and the principles of software design
• Experience developing and executing test plans
• Self-motivated team player with strong problem solving skills
• Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and overall quality of the product
• Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate testing a plus
• Knowledge of white box testing techniques like basis path using cyclomatic complexity, control flow and data flow
• Experience creating a test automation framework or testing tool
• Certified Software Tester (CSTE) preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Strong SQL, Unix and manual testing
• Good understanding of OO languages, including foundation in C#/Java
• Technical degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Quality Assurance methodologies and software testing
• 3– 5 years of experience as a Software Test Engineer or Software QA Engineer
• Knowledge of software test case design techniques like boundary value, decision table, pairwise, state transition, use case testing
• Ability to write intermediate SQL code
• Ability to write code in an object-oriented language, such as C#, Java
• Understand quality assurance methodologies and the principles of software design
• Experience developing and executing test plans
• Self-motivated team player with strong problem solving skills
• Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and overall quality of the product
• Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate testing a plus
• Knowledge of white box testing techniques like basis path using cyclomatic complexity, control flow and data flow
• Experience creating a test automation framework or testing tool

Nice to Haves

• Certified Software Tester (CSTE) preferred