Careers

Quality Assurance Engineer

The Message Systems engineering team is looking for a highly motivated QA Engineer to help us extend the most advanced email-messaging platform on the market. You will enjoy in-depth exposure to all aspects of building scalable applications as part of a small, internationally renowned team that helps our customers — Fortune 500 companies and hot startups alike — achieve their cutting-edge messaging goals.

Position Description

• Will work on projects of moderate to large scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors
• Will function as a Project Team Member on high complexity projects
• Will exercise LINUX applications in a networked environment
• Will define and implement solutions based on objectives
• Will independently provide advanced QA and Testing
• Will perform analysis and review for SDLC artifacts produced by project team members
• Will create scripts necessary to exercise the software
• Will know where to start when trying to break software

Demonstrated Skills

• Excellent Analysis, Problem Solving, Time Management Skills
• Must be willing to learn a variety of technologies independently
• Must possess excellent documentation and QA methodology skills as they relate to Test Planning, Design, Execution and Results analysis
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Must understand how to test boundary conditions, invalid inputs, potential security issues, etc.
• Must be able to read developer unit test cases to uncover unexercised portions of the software
• Must possess experience performing structured quality assurance analyst duties including, but not limited to the following:
  • Requirements analysis and decomposition
  • Prioritization of test-related tasks
  • Test Design and Test Plan development
  • Writing and executing of Test Cases
  • Manual Test Execution
  • Data Validation
  • Defect Tracking; entry and reporting
  • Test Status & Metrics Reporting
• Must posses strong user-level UNIX skills, including the command line interface, the file system, and networking
• Must be proficient in at least one scripting language, such as Perl or Python
• Must have at least 1 year experience writing test automation scripts in a language such as Perl or Python
• Must understand multi-server product architectures

Additional Qualifications

• Admin experience with *NIX systems
• Experience with messaging protocols such as SMTP, SMPP, or MM7
• Experience in multiple QA methodologies and QA best practices; examples include CMM, RUP, Six Sigma, etc.
• Business Analyst, Development, or other IT experience
• Moderate experience with relational databases including writing SQL queries
• Exposure to Performance Engineering
• Exposure to one or more development platforms
• Change Management, Configuration Management, Release Management, or Project Management experience
• Experience with large-scale mail transport infrastructure systems

Education/Experience

• Exposure to 3+ years Quality Assurance or 5+ years of related field experience (IT)
• Bachelor's degree / 4-year college degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking or equivalent work experience.

This position is full-time in our Columbia, MD office. We're only considering candidates with existing US work eligibility.

Send applications to jobs@messagesystems.com.