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QA Engineer

Synamedia

Do you stream videos to your computer, phone, or tablet? Do you consume video from a variety of sources, watching it where and when you want? If so, you’re the type of consumer being served by Synamedia’s innovative video systems. Synamedia is committed to providing the world’s most complete, secure and advanced end-to-end open video delivery solution. Building on more than 30 years of expertise, the firm is the largest global provider of video solutions, trusted by over 200 top satellite DTH, cable, telco and OTT operators, content owners and broadcasters.

As a QA Engineer, you’ll work with a geographically distributed team producing a video wholesaling solution built on top of an advanced microservices framework. This Cloud born SaaS application is used by world’s largest MSO and provides advanced video services to retail cable providers and, ultimately, to millions of subscribers.
As a QA Engineer, you will:

Develop comprehensive test plans from requirements and user stories in an AGILE environment
Author and execute test cases
Test distributed software systems and web applications
Investigate new technologies and implement/integrate them as needed
Write and execute unit and integration tests (i.e. Junit)
Collaborate with distributed development and test teams

Minimum Qualifications:

3+ years deriving comprehensive test plans from requirements and user stories in an Agile environment, and authoring and execution of test cases
3+ years SoapUI/ReadyAPI experience
3+ years working with RESTful services
3+ years testing distributed software systems and Web applications
3 years Linux Scripting (Bourne/Bash/Ruby/Python)
3 years OOP experience (Java, C++, or similar language)
3 years working with software deployed in highly distributed, preferably cloud-based, environments spanning data centers.

Desired Skills and/or Skills you will acquire:

Strong understanding of software quality assurance methodology
Java programming experience
Performance Testing experience (jMeter)
Non-functional Testing experience
Experienced in providing effort estimates in an Agile environment
Able to work in the full development lifecycle
Has excellent troubleshooting skills