Test Engineer ---------------------Need GC and USC

Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).

Test Engineer

Duration: 6 month Contract to hire.

Location: Seattle, WA

Need GC and USC

Top 3 skills

1. Manual and Automation experience

2. Linux and java

3. 5 years’ experience (at least 3 in the US)

Opportunity

We are currently seeking a strong Test Engineer who will be responsible for functional testing of our Instance Automation workflows. The Test Engineer will own the test lab and perform functional tests of on a regular basis. He/she will identify and troubleshoot any failures, find root cause and drive bug fixes. Instance automation workflows are the lifeline of our cloud infrastructure and perform critical functions to support ever-growing needs of our customers. Successful candidates will have extensive experience in the large scale distributed environment working closely with development team and product owners and getting involved in requirements phase, design reviews, test case creation and execution.

Responsibilities

• Write quality test cases (manual & automated) and perform end to end functional tests on a regular basis.

• Identify and drive remediation of blocking issues for functional tests.

• Create problem (bugs) tickets for issues identified with automation or lab environment.

• Work closely with multiple development teams to drive resolution to bugs identified.

• Work closely with lab and services owners to drive resolution to any blocking issues.

• Identify and collaborate with appropriate teams figuring out ideas to improve the general quality of our products and services.

This is a great opportunity to help us lead the industry in operating the next Cloud infrastructure.

Desired Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in testing, understanding of the components of software infrastructure, including hardware platforms, OS, virtualization, application, databases, web and application servers.

• Prior strong experience in functional manual & automation testing is needed

• Should be comfortable in a Linux environment and also writing sql queries.

• Candidate must have good communication skills and work well in a collaborative team environment.

• Should be able to own the things and ramp up quickly

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required.

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 468 0398.