QA Engineer
San Mateo, CA

Job Description

Description

Description

Job Responsibilities and Tasks:

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* Work with the development and support teams to understand root causes and ensure that test cases are updated to address coverage gaps.
* Test and verify the quality of server and client products. Write and maintain documents of test cases, test plans, and test systems.
* Develop and maintain tools and automation frameworks to allow quick testing of products under a variety of scenarios.
* Specifying, designing, validating, documenting, and maintaining system operations test strategies including functional tests, customer scenario testing, stress testing, performance testing, scalability testing, system and subsystem tests.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

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* 4+ years of QA or development experience with distributed server-side software.
* A high degree of independent thought and self direction. You must have outstanding communication and influencing skills and be able to work with globally distributed teams and be comfortable in a fast paced environment with competing priorities and rapid release cycles.
* Extensive knowledge of software QA design and methodologies. Must have the ability to apply knowledge and experience in solving complex problems that require in-depth evaluation.
* Experience with QA automation, especially with large scale system testing.
* Proficiency in Python and bash scripting
* Proficiency with Linux and networking.
* Distributed systems, NoSQL DBs (Cassandra, Redis), storage systems knowledge.
* Experience with Github, Jenkins.
* BS/BA degree or better