QA Architect

Our client located in downtown Bellevue, WA has an immediate need for a expert level senior QA Architect for a full-time employment opportunity. Responsibilities:

• Spearhead design/development/usage of Automation framework.
• Develop test patterns to evaluate the solutions for performance, scalability, resilience and reliability
• Contribute to the quality of the solutions by identifying issues in architecture/design and implementation
• Demonstrate technical leadership and provide mentoring to fellow team members
• Suggest and influence process improvements and act as a change agent for the organization
• Work closely with the development and product management teams to ensure that the architecture/design honors testability, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Continuously increase the coverage and complexity of functional test cases using Java (TestNG, JUnit) and/or scripting languages (Python, etc.)
• Design and develop provide hands-on leadership for a fully automated suite of performance, scalability, load, stress, user experience testing.
• Manage and maintain the Continuous Integration server (Hudson experience is a plus)

Required skills:

• Demonstrated a high level of productivity, responsibility, and influence in previous positions
• Strong analytical thinking, logical reasoning, problem recognition, and problem resolution skills
• Excellent oral and written communication and personal/interpersonal skills
• 5+ years of quality assurance experience with proven ability to automate functional, stress, and volume test cases
• 2+ years of test automation experience in Java (TestNG, Junit)
• 5+ years of experience in developing back-end automation (API/Web Services testing – REST) test suites
• Solid experience with Distributed systems (Hadoop/Cassandra/Solr/Lucene a plus)
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle
• Highly detail-oriented
• Excellent time management

Desired skills:

• Experience with large data processing environments
• Experience in building a Cloud test platform (EC2 experience a plus)
• Strong knowledge of browser technologies (HTML 5.0, Javascript, XML, CSS)
• Strong knowledge of JMX based technologies
• Good balance of open source and commercial platform experience
• Knowledge of code and memory profiling tools for Java
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of Hadoop, Cassandra, Solr/Lucene, Zookeeper, ActiveMQ
• Knowledge of Vmware or other Virtualization solutions