Quality Assurance Engineer

We help consumers make better choices about credit cards. The credit card is one of the most ubiquitous products in the world. It’s hard to imagine modern life without it. It’s also one of the least understood. And that lack of understanding is potentially threatening to consumers’ economic well-being. CreditCards.com is the leading online marketing and publishing organization devoted to helping consumers make informed choices about credit cards.

CreditCards.com is hiring a QA Engineer to join its team. Candidates for this position must demonstrate knowledge of all phases of software development life cycle with an emphasis on validation and deployment. A working knowledge of Quality Assurance best practices including but not limited to governance, test management and automation tools and industry standard quality is critical. Candidates must have excellent communication and collaboration skills and be able to work with peers in other organizations as well as software developers, release leads and other testers.

* Design, write, execute and maintain automated test scripts for APIs, platform and UI software components that you are responsible for. * Determine when components meet acceptable quality criteria and standards and give the go-ahead for release to production. * Work to minimize manual testing by identifying high-ROI test cases and automating them * Review functional and technical documentation in order to identify requirements for the creation of test plans, test cases and test scripts * Conduct test case reviews to ensure scenarios accurately capture business functionality * Execute all components of product testing such as functional, regression and end-to-end testing. * Make recommendations to improve product reliability, performance, and quality assurance best practices and processes * Investigate and evaluate new testing technologies and products for application within the environment. * Own Continuous integration tools (Jenkins) and integrate test suite into CI cluster as applicable. * Work collaboratively within a team of other engineers and demonstrate strong teamwork

* 3+ years hands-on experience as a QA engineer or software developer in test * Strong understanding of QA concepts and proven abilities in the following disciplines: software testing, test case writing, and automated script development * Strong experience in Automation tools frameworks, using Java/JUnit, TestNG, Webdriver, and PHPUnit. * Experience with MYSQL and writing SQL * Strong analytical skills and attention to detail * Strong communication and documentation skills * Strong aptitude (and appetite!) for learning new technologies * Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction