SW QA Engineer

Location: Portland, OR Metro Area

Experienced in front-end programming with a strong knowledge of computer science, and information systems fundamentals.

Skills

• Various testing of features implemented prior to public release; e.g. positive/negative testing, out of bounds testing, exploratory testing

• Most frequent responsibilities include logging bugs for unexpected/unwanted behavior, creating Agile stories for new features, and validating bug fixes and stories implemented by developers

• Responsible for finding existing, or creating new test coverage for expected product behavior, or behavior that was patched out

• Works directly with developers to communicate high priority bugs, clarification on reproduction steps, testing bug fixes before patch release

• Frequent maintenance of knowledge base wiki; product behavior documentation, how-to articles for internal and external tools

• Access to project source code using Git to investigate issues in which viewing the source can be insightful to unusual behavior, primarily C/C++/C#, as well as HTML and CSS

• Experience with test automation using Gherkin, and writing out Gherkin steps in C#