JUNIOR-MID LEVEL QA Test Engineer with Unix and SQL testing at USM Business Systems – Reston | Jobyssey

Role : JUNIOR-MID LEVEL QA Test Engineer

No of positions : 4

Location: Reston, VA

Immigration status: EAD/GC/USC ONLY

Length: 6 Months Contract to Hire

Client is looking for candidate to convert this after 6 months Contract to Hire.

Only locals to VA/MD/DC who can do only F2F on 3/14 between 3-6 PM (No Skype)

• 4 open - contract to hire at client Location in Reston, VA. - building a software product supporting the healthcare exchange system. very diverse environment - quick process.

• Must be able to convert.

• Technical degree

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Strong SQL, Unix and manual testing

• Good understanding of OO languages, including foundation in C#/Java. (Not coding in this but able to read enough code to understand bugs.) Good UNIX command understanding and solid SQL skills, including inner/out joins, table indexing and ability to query a database.

Primary 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

Requirements

• 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

Education/Certification/License:

Bachelors Degree in the following fields: Computer Science, Information Systems or Software Engineering

Certified Software Tester (CSTE) preferred.

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to taherm(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-349-4237.

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