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Q/A Engineer

Description

Covario, Inc. is the leading provider of web-based software that helps Fortune 500 & Global 2000 companies maximize customer acquisition and retention on Google, Yahoo and other major search engines. The company has real products, real customers and real revenues. We are high-growth, San Diego-based, venture-backed company.

We are seeking for a Q/A Engineer who will be responsible for the complete analysis of the product under test and the overall product testing infrastructure, documentation of test results of that analysis, and applying that knowledge to improve testing process.

Responsibilities:

  • Will serve a dual role balanced between hands on testing operations and implementing and providing direction for best of breed enterprise testing platforms and procedures.
  • Typical deliverables will include providing analysis of test hours, management of scheduled milestones, and assurance that quality is met within the software application per requirements.
  • The individual will participate in Requirements and Functional Specifications analysis and reviews, participate in test strategy and approach, develop appropriate test procedures to assure complete test coverage, and document all issues via a defect tracking system.
  • Developing test plans and specifications with documented test results
  • Lead project test efforts. Provide project tasks, overall testing strategy and preliminary test documentation to a team of junior testers and ensure tasks are completed as scheduled.

Qualifications:

  • A four year technical degree or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 2 years of experience with an enterprise-scale testing organizations, working with client server applications, database driven applications and web applications.
  • Ability to effectively and efficiently manage multiple tasks.
  • Understanding of technical systems, including web technologies (server and browser), relational databases and application servers.
  • Strong Communication skills.  
  • Ability to generate test case documents from either requirements or a detailed test plan.
  • Strong SQL skills - MYSQL preferred but experience w/ SQL Server or Oracle will suffice. This means the ability to perform complex joins or nested queries, updates and other means of interacting w/ the database.
  • Experience with advanced automation tool usage - the ability to create automated scripts using data driven testing or making use of functions/variables/advanced functionality.
  • Ability to record/playback only is not considered advanced.

 Nice to have:

  • Formal test methodologies such as risk analysis, test coverage assessment etc.

Come join one of the fastest growing companies today!!!