RESPONSIBILITIES: 
• A champion for quality: own and drive the overall end-to-end quality for a product 
• Influences engineering designs and solutions to ensure quality and testability of products and services 
• Helps define overall test strategy and plan with emphasis on automating as much as possible 
• Creates automated tests APIs with reusability in mind 
• Reads code to troubleshoot and isolate defects 
• Work closely with Development Engineers to build-in quality during development, including actively driving increased code and test coverage 
• Provides proactive guidance during all stages of development lifecycle influencing specific project outcomes with the goal of defect prevention 

QUALIFICATIONS: 
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience 
• 5 years of experience in fast-paced software development 
• Experience in test automation. Create/maintain/execute automated test APIs. Apply automation throughout the SDLC to drive efficiencies. 
• Web Services experience: XML, SOAP and REST 
• C programming experience is a must (70%) and Java programming as well(30%) 
• Practical knowledge with SQL 
• Whitebox testing experience 
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux environment 
• Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills 
• Solid software engineering 

Skills: 
Object Oriented Design and Programming 
• Familiarity with Agile Development: Creating Test Plan and Tests in lock-step with development 
• Excellent written and communication skills 

PLUS SKILLS: 
• Robot Framework Automation and/or Selenium/Webdriver 
• Working experience with Apache web server and JBoss application server 
• Python, or Ruby development 
• Experience with large scale, high volume web-based transactions 
• Performance testing with JMeter 
• Security testing 
• Automation framework creation and extension development 
• Good knowledge of testing services and using simulators