Proven self-motivation to learn new skills and develop professionally; Interest in using agile practices; Courage to learn, ask questions and ask for help; Strong written and oral communication skills
Symplified is Hiring
According to Gartner, 25% of all software will be deployed with the On Demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS), model by 2011. Deutsche Bank predicts 50% by 2013. No matter how you slice it, the future of software is On Demand. Join the On Demand pioneer, Symplified, and be part of the team that is creating this future. Identity On Demand is an innovative concept pioneered by Symplified. Symplified is a venture backed, stealth mode startup in downtown Boulder founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs. This is an opportunity to be an early member of the team. We are looking for sharp, innovative and passionate engineers. We are looking for people who have the ability to thrive and shine in a dynamic lean and agile fast paced environment.
Quality Assurance Engineer
As a Quality Assurance Engineer on our team, you'll collaborate with product owners and programmers to help guide development of customer-facing tests, create and maintain integration/system/performance/load/stress/ and security tests and explore other creative agile automated testing approaches. We'll also be defining and develop testing simulators to support successful testing.
Qualifications:
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science or closely related discipline
- At least two years testing experience on a commercial web-based software product, preferably on an agile team using automated testing approaches
- At least one year of experience with open source GUI test tools (Selenium, Watir, Canoo WebTest, or others) and/or System/Performance tools (SoapUI, WebLoad, Grinder or others)
- Strong technical background and familiarity with Windows, Linux and Mac OSs, TCP network configuration and diagnostics.
- Experience writing simple SQL queries and insert/update statements,
and basic grasp of Oracle or another relational database.
- Experience collaborating with programmers and business experts.
- Experience in context-based, exploratory or scenario testing a plus.
- Ability to work as part of a self-directed team, where you determine
your tasks on a daily basis in coordination with co-workers, rather
than waiting for work to be assigned to you.
- Proven self-motivation to learn new skills and develop professionally.
- Interest in using agile practices.
- Courage to learn, ask questions and ask for help.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Experience designing tests to mitigate risks, eliciting requirements
from business experts.
