Quality Assurance Engineer

Message Systems is a global leader in messaging, with a global customer base including tier-1 telecommunications carriers, email service providers and online enterprises. Our technologies help transit billions of messages per day for customers worldwide, while offering unmatched flexibility and architectural clarity. The company combines the best aspects of Open Source, startup, and established company in our business goals and corporate culture.

Position Description:

• A Senior level Quality Assurance Engineer position
• 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 receive objectives for work and define and implement solutions as a result
• Will be self-sufficient providing advanced QA and Testing
• Will perform analysis and review for SDLC artifacts produced by project team members
• Will produce metrics, analysis, and recommendations to project and product team management

Demonstrated Skill Sets:

• Mastery of SDLC concepts and their inter-relationships with QA and can devise complex QA strategies regarding them
• 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
• Excellent Analysis, Problem Solving, Time Management Skills
• 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
• User level experience with UNIX or UNIX-like systems
• Understanding of multi-tiered product architectures
• Desirable Qualifications
• Experience in multiple QA methodologies and QA best practices; examples include CMM, RUP, Six Sigma, etc.
• Business Analyst, Development, or other IT experience
• Exposure to Test Automation or 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.

Message Systems believes in a fun but focused development environment. We have a casual environment, outstanding benefits, and a world-class team. Our engineering group works in an open plan and uses the Scrum development methodology with a focus on collaboration, automation, and testing.

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.