Lead QA Engineer

Ebates is a profitable, high growth e-commerce company based in San Francisco. We offer a casual but fast-paced environment where creativity and effective teamwork and collaboration are rewarded. We are changing the way people shop online, and we strive to provide the best possible customer experience - not to mention cash back on every purchase, with no strings attached.

Product Catalog, Search & Personalization is an exciting project at Ebates. Our mission is to provide an accurate, compelling catalog with millions of products covering our thousands of merchant partners – and build highly relevant search and recommendations engines to take our search and e-commerce offering to the next level.

This platform will use our Big Data infrastructure, open source scalable search platform and cutting edge machine learning/statistical modeling and it will be highly leveraged within the company, becoming the foundation for our next-generation of applications.

Be part of an awesome R&D team where you get inspired by talented people, challenges and mission to change the e-commerce landscape! Plus, you’ll help millions of Ebates members worldwide get the best deals available!

Role:

• We are looking for hands-on Senior QA Engineer for Product Catalog, Search & Personalization. The position is located in San Mateo with flexibility to work from the San Francisco office.
• You will be responsible for leading design, development & execution of QA tasks this project.
• This is a great opportunity to join early and influence the technology, processes and own the infrastructure and expand your role to assume more responsibilities as you grow with the company.

• Responsibilities include but are not limited to: White-box, Functional, Automated regression and Performance testing.
• Create and execute test plans and test cases.
• Work closely with the Engineering team to quickly isolate, record, and report issues.
• Deploy/Install backend applications on Linux servers.
• Develop, implement, and execute manual tests of backend Java applications.
• Creating automated tests.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience writing and executing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents
• Knowledge and experience with at least one programming or scripting language (Java preferred)
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with database Mysql or Postgres.
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving ability.
• Ability to work in team, multi-task and flexible with working hours.
• Plus for experience with Big Data (Cassandra/Hadoop) and machine learning based technologies
• Education in Engineering / Computer Science

Preferred Skills

• Familiar with Unix/Linux commands.
• Experience in testing automation tools like Selenium, (preferred) SOAPUI, JUnit, TestNG, , JMeter etc.
• Experience with the Agile development process