Job Description:

QA Engineer / QA Lead Job

QA Engineer / Lead needed for a contract (possible hire) opportunity with Yoh's client located in San Ramon, CA

The Big Picture - Top Skills Should You Possess:

- At least eight (8) total years of experience in QA and or Development
- Black Box testing
- Coding experience in C# or Java

What You'll Be Doing:

- Responsible for test creation, testing a large module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area.
- Work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across business.
- Lead quality engineering discussions in a limited manner and mentors other junior quality engineers.
- Own large sized tasks or small projects and delivers QE artifacts.
- Manages deliverables and mentors junior team members.
- Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining coding standards and processes to ensure quality code is produced.
- Appropriately reuse existing code wherever possible; drives same behaviors across team while coaching other developers to improve their code quality.
- Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams at the COE.
- Determine testing best practices and principals and promotes them across the organization.
- Be an expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
- Be skilled at developing code for other developers to learn from.
- Be skilled in integrating project testing with continuous-integration process.
- Work with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
- Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
- Act as an expert in the quality engineering, manages test plans and testing methodology for software projects.
- Uses test automation techniques (data driven, pairwise, mocking, test hooks) that fit the problem space.
- Understands designing and coding for testability to produce quality code with the lowest cost.

What You Need to Bring to the Table:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering from an accredited institute
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in software QA or development, preferably in Life Science, Healthcare industries.
- Expert in black box testing
- Minimum five (5) years of experience with Test Frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, JBehave
- Minimum three (3) years of coding experience with C# or Java
- Experience with Jira, Rally, VS, ALM, Perforce, VMware, MS SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL
- Demonstrated ability to write / read Java code
- Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
- Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks

Bonus Points! Otherwise Known As Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong knowledge of OOD, software design patterns and principles
- Experience in testing Enterprise Software Products
- Knowledge of JUnit and Test Driven Development practices
- Strong problem solving abilities
- Experience working with Agile software development methodologies
- Experience working in a validated environment.

If This Sounds Like You, Apply Now!

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