Sr QA Engineer

HQ - Burlington, MA

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Job Description

 

As a QA Engineer on Veracode’s, you will work closely with software developers and other QA engineers in small scrum teams to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner.  Specific duties and responsibilities include developing and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases, estimating test efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking, and participating in day-to-day QA activities.

 

Responsibilities include:

  • Develop test plans and test cases
  • Write design and functional specifications for use in testing
  • Perform manual testing
  • Prepare estimates for assigned tasks and complete all work according to schedule and quality requirements
  • Provide ongoing feedback on deliverables
  • Acquire knowledge necessary to perform job assignments (technology, product and process)
  • The following programming skills may be needed as part of this job
  • Python skills for instrumenting tests and creating feature test page
  •  Java knowledge for troubleshooting production incident
  •   PHP knowledge for augmenting existing PHP fi
  • Create Amazon AMIs and controls starting and stopping EC2 instances.  Familiarity with AWS CLI.

Skills & Requirements

  • Engineer that knows the in-and-outs of high-performing multithreading Java applications.  Familiarity with instrumenting browsers and JavaScript knowledge is a big plus.       
  • 3-5 years experience with QA and programming
  • Experience testing a web application stack; knowledge of web servers, application servers, and databases
  • Development experience in at least one high level language, ideally Python. And a desire to use those skills in validating software quality.
  • Amazon Web Services knowledge
  • Must possess excellent overall attention to detail, quality and customer satisfaction
  • Self-motivated, results driven, and able to work effectively in a fast paced, dynamic environment
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to multitask; startup experience preferred
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related
  • U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Apache/mod_wsgi, Flask, Postgres
  • Experience in a cross platform environment
  • iOS / Android experience a plus
  • Document and share technical information and processes