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Sungevity is bringing affordable solar power to the people - and you could be part of this clean energy crusade. Our industry is growing rapidly, benefiting from falling costs and rising awareness. And thanks to the hard work of our team and our focus on delighting customers, we have become a leading provider of home solar energy nationwide.
Culture
Our mission is to build the world’s most energized network of customers, who power their lives with sunshine. We all share this passion for solar as a critical component in addressing the environmental issues of our time. We take enormous pride in our unique offering in the solar industry and our customer satisfaction scores so far. Our values are to put the customer first with practical, simple, creative solar solutions that can take solar mainstream.
Our signature as a team is that we strive to be collaborative, unpretentious, and driven to achieve our mission.
The Position
The primary responsibility of the Quality Assurance Engineer is to ensure that the required product quality standards are met prior to releasing Sungevity software products to production. The Senior QA Engineer requires the use of professional concepts to complete complex quality assurance assignments. They work on problems of diverse scope, and can work without any instructions on most work. Must work effectively in a team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in reviews and discussions of specifications such as user stories and designs and provides feedback concerning completeness, accuracy, and testability
- Designs, develops and maintains complex software test plans and test cases
- Executes software tests, records results, and reports defects
- Solves or recommends solutions to complex issues and problems
- Provides technical training and leadership to other QA Engineers
- Performs regression testing of fixed defects
- Designs, develops and maintains automated test scripts (i.e., Selenium and JMeter)
- Develops and executes load and performance benchmark tests and reports results
- Performs software compatibility tests on new software and hardware platforms
- Provides quality metrics necessary for determining product release readiness
- Determines whether software meets quality release standards
- Works with developers to reproduce and resolve defects.
- Tracks defects from detection to resolution
- Reviews test plans, test cases, and test results with the project team to ensure the product test is thorough and complete
- Assists in developing test data to ensure it is representative of an actual customer database, on all available platforms
- Coordinates testing tasks and projects, including task estimation and scheduling
- Designs and develops testing tools such as checklists and guidelines
- Evaluates and recommends testing techniques, methods, and third-party testing tools
- Helps define and implement processes, procedures, and standards used by the Quality Assurance group
- Identify project risks and make recommendations to reduce those risks
Qualifications, Skills & Education:
- Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in software QA testing or related field such as programming
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, or related area preferred
- Experience with Scrum Agile development methodology
- Understanding of the overall product development process, phases, and deliverables
- Knowledge of quality assurance methods and techniques
- Experience with Customer Relationship Management systems
- Good analysis and problem solving abilities
- Good planning, organization, and work managements skills
- Ability to communicate clearly in written and verbal English communications
- Attention to detail
- Knowledge of various different Windows operating systems
- PC skills including Microsoft Office applications
- Knowledge of at least one programming language
- Experience with JIRA, Selenium and JMeter
- Working knowledge of relational DBMS’s and the SQL language
- Extensive experience testing web-based applications
Sungevity is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. If you have the skills we seek and are interested in making a strong contribution to a dynamic organization focused on making solar energy accessible, please send your cover letter and resume through our careers portal at www.sungevity.com. All submittals will be treated as confidential. Sungevity strives for a multicultural work environment; diversity is a core value. AA/EOE.
Location
This position is located in the historic Jack London Square area of Oakland, CA.
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