Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

The Sr QA Engineer is responsible for the overall quality of the FirstLook suite of SaaS applications and coordinating testing efforts across multi-office, multi-disciplinary Product Management, Engineering, and Account Management teams. You’ll be responsible for liaising with business stakeholders and engineers to insure quality throughout the product development lifecycle, from requirements development to production release. Additionally, you’ll act as an advocate for quality and engage the organization in establishing quality processes and metrics.
 

We’re a small company of highly motivated, smart people and we move fast! Hands-on attitude required!

Responsibilities include:
• Create and maintain Functional and Acceptance test plans for the entire suite of tools and insure the test case catalog provides adequate black box coverage.
• Take an active role in building, maintaining, and executing manual test cases throughout the new product development and regression test cycles
• Work with business stakeholders to review defect reporting, identify the root cause of production defects, and advocate for and track bugs through the Engineering defect queue.
• Increase efficiency by identifying mature areas of the suite as ideal candidates for automated testing. Design and implement automated cases as candidates are identified.
Skills
Ideal Candidates should possess:
• 5-7 years of QA experience with full life cycle testing of SaaS products - .NET, J2EE, SQL 2005, and standard web front-end technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to assess product specifications and derive explicit test plans and cases from high-level business requirements, wireframes, and mockups.
• Proven success in developing and incorporating effective quality assurance tools, methods, and processes into application and product development cycle. Demonstrated experience with Mercury, Rational, or similar quality/testing suite highly desired.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, CS, or engineering field from reputable program
• Excellent trouble shooting, problem solving, and technical/business analysis skills
• Comfort with and passion for high tech, high growth business environment
• Persistent “can-do” attitude, aggressive work ethic, and “hustle” mentality
• US CITIZENSHIP OR PERMANENT WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED. Permanent residence in Austin required. No relocation assistance will be provided.

How to Apply
For immediate consideration, please answer the following 3 questions to the best of your ability.
1. Requirement
An application receives three integer values as input. The three values are interpreted as representing the lengths of the sides of a triangle. The application prints a message that states whether the triangle is scalene, isosceles, or equilateral.
Write a set of test cases that would adequately test this application
2. Requirement
Your mother states that you must eat three well-balanced, nutritious meals a day.
Write a set of test cases to determine whether this requirement has been met?
3. General Discussion
Suppose that you have an existing web-based application. Portions of the application are written in Java (JSP, Struts, Spring, etc) and other portions are written in .Net (ASP.Net web-forms, n-tier architecture). The back-end is a SQL server database. Assume that existing test coverage is sparse - consisting of some unit tests and some manual screen testing. Assume that the application must support IE6 and modern browsers.

1. Briefly describe how you would go about putting together an automated test suite for this application. Are there existing frameworks that you would use or would you start from scratch?
2. How would you research and plan your test project(s)?
a. How would you determine where to start adding test coverage?
b. What aspects of the system would you want to test?
3. How would you verify correct screen behavior for different browsers? (multiple versions of IE, Firefox, etc …)
4. What integration points would you want between the existing code base and the test suite?
Email your (1) resume, (2) responses, (3) salary requirements, and (4) confirmation of your legal ability to work a full-time permanent position in Austin, TX to HR@incisent.com. Include in the position title in the subject line: Sr QA Engineer Questionnaire- Austin, and mention that you are referring to the post in GeekAustin.

About the Company:
First Look by Incisent Technologies, has grown from 12 franchises in one state in early 2004, to over 1,500 franchises across the country today. First Look is the leader in new and pre-owned inventory optimization and performance management software with several new product areas currently in the research and development process. First Look enjoys major distribution and marketing partnerships with major national organizations with nearly 10,000 dealer principal relationships, enabling dramatic leverage for its growing sales force. The company has grown historically through a more indirect sales model and is building powerful direct sales capabilities to capture the opportunities created by its strong market momentum.

Incisent Technologies offers a highly attractive compensation plan, and direct career path for quick advancement with full benefits plan, paid time off, equity opportunities, and 401(k) plan.

Please visit www.incisent.com to learn about our organization and www.firstlook.biz to learn about our product.