Quality Assurance Analyst
Square 9 Softworks
New Haven, CT 06510
The Role
Square 9 develops next generation document and content management solutions. As a QA analyst, you will be diligently focused on finding and reporting on software defects before they hit a production release. Development is agile, and creativity and attention to detail are critical. We have an energetic and inspired team and have an immediate need to add like-minded people to our group.
The core server platform is Microsoft .Net based and primarily written in C# using RESTful and SOAP based web services. Front end software includes traditional .Net client/server technology as well as ASP.Net, Javascript, and HTML5. We are always of on front side of new technologies and actively seek to deploy them in our solutions.
Ideal Qualities of the Applicant
- Critical Tolerance – Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively within a collaborative process
- Judgment and Decision Making – Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
- Initiative – Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges
- Achievement/Effort – Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks
- Dependability – Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations
- Attention to Detail – Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks
Professionalism
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Experience interfacing with professional level buyers
- Business maturity with a “Can-do” attitude
- Self-starter with high initiative
Primary Responsibilities
- Manual testing of various web based and client/server front ends
- Test automation scripting using TestComplete
- Report on logged defects and communicate with developers on issues and resolutions
Key Requirements
- Significant experience with Windows Server infrastructure
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Communicating in clear, grammatically correct conversational English is a required skill
- Knowledge of Web Services, WCF, WPF, and WWF, jQuery, AJAX, ASP.Net
- Expert database (SQL) skills, specifically SQL Server
- Knowledge of Windows platform infrastructure (ASP.Net, IIS, Message Queuing, Authentication)
