QE Lead

Type: Full Time
Location : San Jose CA
Req # 34580
To Apply Send your resumes to tdiwan@ebay.com

Primary Job Responsibilities

As a QE engineer and Dedicated team lead, the responsibilities include:

* Design, develop and lead eBay's next generation QE initiative. As part of the QE team, this individual will be responsible for the oversight and development of broad testing framework / unit, functional and integration testing.

* Be able to articulate, evaluate and evangelize testing strategies (including TDD, Test-First Programming, and Acceptance Testing) and apply them in eBay's context as well come up with metrics for realistic testing effort estimation.

* Will be actively involved in low level code testing. Part of the code base includes: Application and Component Frameworks, Presentation Infrastructure, Database Access Layer, Services Infrastructure including SOAP, Caching Systems, Common Rules Engine Services, Logging, Static and Dynamic Configuration Services and various Deployment Models.

* Work with engineers, managers, Product Management, QA, Load & Performance, and Operations teams to develop innovative testing solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to testing goals and principles.

* Estimate testing effort, prioritize projects, plan implementations, and help rollout system changes. Help define, and supervise the testing of complex, multi-tier distributed software systems and impacted domains that provide value-add from site quality perspective.

* Identify process, technology challenges and deficiencies that need to be addressed and drive those changes to successful adoption.

* As a dedicated team lead, establish the team as a center of expertise and excellence for a specific assigned functional area, define team direction based on current and emerging technologies and organizational requirements

* Participation in the design of new features for the website working closely with Product Management, Design, Usability, Product Development and Operations.

* Mentoring and leading the team members to successful implementation of features and in delivering updates to the site on schedule while achieving quality objectives

* Risk assessment and capacity planning for the assigned functional area

Job Requirements

The duties will include developing test plans test cases & test tools, and working with the development and other QA teams to ensure standard QA/QE processes are followed including usage of Test Case management systems.
An individual with a development background interested in broadening experience into testing is required.

Leading the effort and defining the application platform testing approach and needs.
Creating test plans and test cases for new assigned features, developing test tools for white-box testing. Executing planned testing tasks and providing timely and accurate analysis of findings. Keeping management informed of progress.
Communicating effectively with developers, operations, release management, and PD/QA peers.
Proactively fixing bugs and solving problems.
As a dedicated team lead, be the voice of quality at product design and throughout the product life cycle. Scope testing needs, monitor the team’s progress, assess risks to the product and program and articulate those to management.


Basic Qualifications

* BS/BA in CS or related field

* 8+ years experience in requirements analysis, whitebox testing, and testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

* Solid Knowledge of QA testing techniques to determine appropriate number of test iterations and applying risk-based testing concepts.

* Experience in JAVA and JUNIT required

* Have Oracle RDBMS experience.

* Familiarity working on NT systems

* Experience testing of software applications that are java-based.

* Knowledge of J2EE and application servers such as websphere and web-logic

* Solid Quality Assurance background, including Code Coverage (Emma)/Mock concepts/Static Analysis (PMD, Klocworks)

* Good communication skills


Education
BSCS or BSEE or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree