Job Title

Sr. SQA Engineer – Japanese market

City

BRISBANE

State

CA

Position Summary

The Sr. SQA Engineer serves as a tech lead and mentor in the SQA department. This particular position will involve some Japan related projects

Position Description

1. Domain Knowledge Expertise and Technical Leadership
• Work with your peers on the development teams to constantly improve testability of projects in your area of responsibility
• Determine appropriate number of test iterations for projects in your area of responsibility and apply risk-based testing concepts to accomplish a comprehensive test coverage
• Proactively come up with innovative methods to constantly improve quality, test coverage, efficiency and regression coverage thru automation for projects in your area of responsibility
• Identify project risks and recommend actions to minimize risk
2. Project Planning & Testing
• Participate in the design and implementation process for new and existing products
• Define and implement black-box, gray-box and white-box and automated testing suites for core technologies, products and web-based applications
• Develop and maintain test scripts
• Write and maintain test automation scripts where applicable
• Test data and perform business applications Functional System and Integration (End-to-End) tests for new and existing applications
• Participate in review and approval processes for project deliverables
• Advise project teams on appropriate approaches to testing delivered products, including test tool sets
• Provide guidance to development and project teams on the creation of a Master Test Plan and other testing-related deliverables
• Assist project teams on identifying the needs for appropriate test environments; coordinate the establishment of appropriate test environments
• Oversee processes for identifying, tracking and reporting the results of test procedures
• Assist in populating and maintaining regression test databases
• Perform regression testing using existing scripts
• Responsible for finding, tracking and prioritizing bugs and driving toward their resolution
• Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts
3. Production Support
• Participate in the testing of Production Emergency Bug Fixes
• Develop/modify test cases for new emergency bug fixes
• Must be available for rotating on-call support duties, and to periodically participate in after-hours release testing
• Participate in release production validation

Minimum Qualifications

Competencies: Skills, Knowledge, Abilities
Functional Competencies:
• Strong Unix skills required
• Proficiency as well as experience in XML, Java, Python and PL/SQL required
• Complete and thorough knowledge of the SDLC and testing methodologies
• Proficient in relational databases technologies like Oracle
• Experience with multi-tiered e-commerce systems

Interpersonal Competencies:
• Ability to speak, read and write Japanese is required
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced yet structured environment, communicate concisely and clearly to all levels of the organization, and be willing to drive quality into the development process
• Show initiative and drive
• Demonstrate ability to acquire understanding and absorb new information rapidly; a “quick study.”
• Able to carry out role independently and resolve issues with minimal supervision
• Strong problem-solving skills to address complex problems within the technical arena and develop creative and practical solutions
• Capable of multi-tasking
• Perform at the same level of effort and professionalism irrespective of personal preferences
• Team player with strong people skills
• Must consistently project a professional attitude
• Escalate issues appropriately to manager
• Excellent communication skills
• Good documentation skills
• Great attention to detail
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals

Leadership Competencies:
• Train, mentor and lead QA Engineers
• Proactively monitor project statuses so as to foresee and communicate potential issues
• Demonstrate integrity, maturity and a constructive approach to challenges
• Foster and maintain Wal-Mart’s three core values:
• Respect for the Individual
• Service to our Customers
• Strive for Excellence
• Make decisions, using good judgment, that are in line with strategy and understand how projects fit into overall development strategy and process
• Ability to work on multiple projects and reprioritize as needed
• Demonstrate an attitude of joint accountability for all aspects of projects, whether or not directly assigned responsibilities
• Demonstrate respect, responsiveness and professionalism toward others while providing superior service for customers
• A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Experience:
• Must have at least 7+ years of QA experience with BS in CS or 5+ years of QA experience with MS in CS in a commercial software/Internet company
• Experience in testing e-commerce applications
• Experience in integration / systems testing
• Experience in writing PL/SQL, Java, Shell and Python or Perl scripts to automate testing tasks
• Experience using Oracle databases
• Experience with automated testing tools
• Experience in developing tools/scripts to aid in testing client/server and Web applications
• Experience working with offshore teams a pl