Software Automation Engineer

San Francisco  ‐ Onsite
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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a self-directed, technically proficient, and highly motivated Test Automation Engineer that can contribute to improving our automation test coverage. You will develop tools and ideas to improve our automation implementation and processes and be responsible for testing highly technical infrastructure improvement projects. Be prepared to work in test driven development environment where you will write code to test other peoples code!

The Job:

- Work closely with developers in TDD environment and create automated tests across the application stack
- Research, identify, reproduce, isolate software defects and turn those into automated tests
- Recommend and implement improvements to our automation tools and processes
- Maintain standards and best practices for test writing across the team
- Maintain and improve our continuous integration server
- Review developers' unit tests and add to them as needed
- Be the primary tester for infrastructure improvement projects
- Must be able to learn new technical areas quickly.

Qualifications:

- 4+ years experience in Quality Assurance for web applications
- 2+ years experience with service oriented architectures and API consumption testing
- 2+ years experience in web application test automation with Selenium, Capybara, Webrat, or similar tool
- Proficient in >= 1 high level knowledge of programming language (Ruby preferred)
- Solid knowledge of web application components including caching, ajax, css, javascript, cookies
- Extremely comfortable working with SQL and databases for test set-up and trouble-shooting purposes
- Self-managing and have the ability to adjust to competing priorities and allocate your time as necessary to get the job done
- Proficient in Unix/Linux environment for creating scripts, troubleshooting logs and identifying problematic processes
- Experience working with Continuous Integration servers
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and process
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
- Proof of eligibility to work in the United States

To find out more about Real please visit www.realstaffing.com
Start date
02/2013
From
Real
Published at
20.02.2013
Project ID:
492196
Contract type
Freelance
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