Sr. QA Engineer

Location: Irvine
Posted on: October 19, 2024

Job Description:

 
OFFICIAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
Sr. QA Engineer - Mobile / SDET / IOS
 
Our Company:
 
Tyco is the world's largest dedicated fire protection and security company. Our mission is to advance safety and security by finding smarter ways to save lives improve businesses and protect where people live and work. Our 69,000 employees in over 1,000 locations around the world take a consultative approach to delivering tailored, industry-specific solutions. Our global reach allows us to anticipate changes across geographies and industries, and deploy the right solutions rapidly. In the most challenging and demanding environments, we help our customers achieve their safety, security and business goals.
 
Our products and solutions help protect:
• 80% of the world's top 200 retailers
• More than 1,000,000 fire fighters around the world
• 90% of the top 50 oil and gas companies
• International airports
• 100+ major stadiums around the world
• A majority of the Fortune 500
• 200+ hospitals around the world
• Nearly 3 million commercial, government and residential customers
 
 
With a tradition of customized service and a passion for technology and innovation, Tyco develops practical, integrated fire protection and security solutions for increasingly complex environments.
 
Summary
 
Act as a Senior QA engineer in the development of automated functional, integration, regression and performance testing of mobile applications running on a multi-tenant cloud based enterprise software solution.  The Senior QA Engineer will play an important role in automated functional, integration and regression testing of mobile applications leveraging a new cloud-based platform that will support several different market verticals.  The Senior QA Engineer will participate in determining the technical direction for the functional, integration, regression and performance testing of mobile applications running on highly scalable multi-tenant cloud platform technology components which include developing test framework to perform scale/load testing of mobile applications, middleware, database, web services, and associated cloud services.
 
Job Responsibilities
• Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of automated functional, integration, regression and performance testing framework for mobile applications on Andorid and iOS platforms, including, but not limited to development and/or diagnostic software.
• Contributes to the development of test strategies, devices and systems.
• Contributes to the development of new techniques, models and plans within area of expertise.
• Evaluates complex situations using multiple sources of information filters, validates and interprets dynamic material.
• Applies developed project management techniques.
• Define the technical implementation of the system architecture and business strategy for the cloud based platform.
• Participates in the development of automated functional, integration, regression and performance testing features from collaboration on requirements definition, feature design, coding, testing, and deployment to Level 3 support.
• Reviews development of testing frameworks, coding standards, conducts code reviews and walkthroughs, and conducts in-depth design reviews.
• Interfaces with Product Management, Project Management, Software Development, Firmware Development, and Quality Assurance to ensure that a high quality product is delivered which meets or exceeds all published guidelines
• Mentors, coaches junior QA engineers to ensure that each of their deliverables and behaviors mirror software developmental excellence
Desired Skills and Experience
Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or in a related engineering field.
• 5 years of experience in software testing and development.
• 3 years hands on experience in integration and performance testing mobile applications leveraging cloud-based solutions or highly scalable multi-tenant enterprise solutions.
 
Required Job Skills
• Must be proficient in analyzing complex issues and architectures and reducing them to practice.  Strong analytical skills are essential.
• Must have excellent communication and team management skills to effectively lead junior engineers and to collaborate with the globally disperse development teams.
• Under general supervision; ability to exercise independent judgment; must compare alternate courses of action and make a decision after considering the options.  Must be self motivated and a "self-starter"
• Enterprise Operations / Architecture - Must have spent at least 3 years developing automated functional, integration and regression tests for large-scale, enterprise-wide, complex information technology initiatives, at both an infrastructure and an application level.
• Cloud Architecture - Technical knowledge and load testing experience using either JMeter, BlazeMeter, Blitz, Gatling, LoadRunner, or loadUI. Experience using tools such as JUnit, Cucumber, Mockito, Arquillian, Selenium, Jasmine, BusterJS, SauceLabs, BrowserStack or Espresso. Familiarity with common cloud architecture, enabling components, and deployment platforms (such as JMS, Kafka, J2EE, Storm, Gearman, Infrastructure as a service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service).
• Cloud Platforms - Application functional, integration and regression testing experience utilizing distributed processing solutions such as Hadoop, distributed storage solutions such as Cassandra, real-time and post analytics processing architectures, application server platforms, clustered infrastructures, and distributed queuing technologies such as JMS or Kafka.  Minimum of 2 years experience developing highly scalable data-driven applications based on structured and unstructured data sets.
• Software Development - Minimum of 3 years experience with Enterprise Java (J2EE or Spring, Hibernate) or .NET architectures. Minimum of 3 years experience with object oriented programming languages (Java, C#, Objective-C).  Any other relevant languages (Groovy/Grails, Python, RoR) is a plus
• Web Services – Automated functional, integration and regression testing of applications utilizing one or more of the following web services technologies: JSON-RPC, JSON-WSP, Web Services Description Language (WSDL), REST, RPC, or XML
• Performance Tuning - Minimum of 2 years experience with performance and scalability tuning of high-volume websites/applications Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience with Parallel and Grid Computing Technologies.
• Web based designs - Minimum 5 years experience automated functional, integration and regression testing and troubleshooting complex web-based N-tier enterprise applications that run in mixed operating system environments.
 

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