Essential Attributes

• Early–mid-stage career tester with genuine desire to excel in this discipline, an agile enthusiast
• Excellent requirements analysis and static testing skills
• Strong character and communication skills – work with Devs, Architects, BAs, and PMs
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and eager to voice opinion, self-sufficient, troubleshooter
• Awareness of good test practice within different software development lifecycle models
• Ability to analyze and apply a pragmatic and context-driven approach to any testing
• Able to identify risks and suggest or implement appropriate mitigation
• An active interest in Agile test automation, performance, and security testing approaches
• Exploratory Testing & Risk-Based Testing
• Reporting and Presentation Skills – to peers and project/test management, clients
• Defect Management
• Ruby, Java, JavaScript or Groovy coding skills and willingness to learn (Ruby)
• Experience in API testing
• Awareness of Agile Continuous Integration principles
• Awareness of industry tools, languages, and models – how and why they are used – Java, Ruby, Cucumber, TDD/BDD, OWASP ZAP, Jira, JMeter, Jenkins, Git/Gerrit, Mercurial/Rhodecode, Appium, Perfecto
• Maintains a personal development plan
• An active participant in industry webinars, meet-ups, LinkedIn groups, etc.

Preferable Attributes (Active Experience with...)

• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Oracle ATG/SAP Hybris/Aptos/Demandware
• BDD and Cucumber with Ruby/WATIR/Capybara
• API automation with Meter, SoapUI or Ruby REST and SOAP Clients
• Neoload or JMeter for Load Testing
• OWASP ZAP, Paros Proxy, Kali Linux for Security Testing
• Jenkins, Git/Gerrit, Mercurial/Rhodecode – Code Review and Version Control Systems
• Appium, Perfecto, Sauce Labs, Browserstack – Mobile and X Browser automation
• Experience with JIRA or similar requirements and test management tools for manual testing, planning, and reporting