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QA Manager
Type: Full Time
Location: Deerfield, IL
Job Overview:
BigMachines, Inc., a profitable, rapidly growing web software company (www.bigmachines.com) founded in 2000 with offices in Deerfield, IL (Chicago north suburbs) and San Mateo, CA (Peninsula/Bay Area), is in search of talented QA engineer. The company has been growing over 50% per year, is led by a strong management team, and backed by strong financial investors, who are looking to accelerate the company's growth to the next level.
Description:
You need to be a hands-on QA Manager who will be responsible for a BigMachines module and also assign and monitor tasks given to the quality assurance team. You will be required to participate in extensive communication between build engineers, developers, QA and development management.You will be responsible for building and maintaining QA standards/ goals and objectives and coordinate overall quality assurance schedules. You will be working with other experienced QA engineers to design, create, document, implement and maintain test scripts and the test framework. You should be self directed, team and process oriented. This position requires lots of initiative and willingness to work long hours and also to remain flexible in a very dynamic environment. You will have the opportunity to work with a smart, talented team of developers and quality assurance engineers on the BigMachines application, using the latest web technologies. Your core responsibilities will include:
Duties:
- Directly supervise quality assurance team including the preparation and delivery of performance evaluations and career development activities.
- Provides necessary definition, development and deployment of product quality assurance strategy, addressing all phases of product development.
- Responsible for creating QA plans and orchestrating the final delivery of software releases to customer visible environments.
- Establish and maintain policies for documentation of all test plans, test cases and QA strategies and processes.
- Work with development team to develop test plans, test cases and QA strategies.
- Complete assigned test cases and test plans in a timely fashion.
- Participate in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load and system testing.
- Responsible for high quality of assigned projects from software Quality Testing through final User Acceptance Testing.
- Perform both black box and white box testing of the BigMachines applications.
- Work with QA team members, software developers and system and database administrators to trouble-shoot test failures in the various test/customer environments. This may include trouble-shooting database issues, reviewing server logs, etc.
Qualifications:
- A Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related software engineering discipline, or equivalent
- Demonstrate experience in handling teams and being in lead positions.
- Experience using QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design and execution
- Experience testing web applications
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to work constructively with developers, QA, Systems and Project managers towards a common goal
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- High degree of integrity in handling confidential information.
- Ability to motivate team members.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Unix/ shell scripting a big plus
- Knowledge of Relational Database and SQL queries
- Experience with Java application development
- Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum
- Experience with scripting languages and tools such as PERL
- Experience with Unit Testing Automation frameworks, such as Junit, HTTPUnit, etc
- Experience with XML
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