Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Back-End/C++, Python)

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“Come join our dynamic and talented Quality Assurance team in a hands-on technical role supporting different suite of applications and services.  As a QA Engineer at FICO, you will be part of an expanding and highly valued software development team which is developing cutting edge analytic software for high profile customers across a wide variety of industries using the latest technologies and software development methodologies” - Sr Director, Software Quality Assurance

What You’ll Contribute

• Develop test plan and test strategy meeting functional requirements, user stories and user acceptance criteria.
• Participate in release planning and product roll-out.
• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing (both "black" and "grey" box). Execute application, usability, functional, regression and performance testing for business applications in a client/server environment.
• Review, author and maintain flexible and maintainable automated test scripts to support back-end QA automation.
• Identify and analyze issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues.
• Communicate product readiness, generation of quality metrics, level of quality, and results to Quality Assurance Management and the project team.
• Identify gaps in the quality assurance and testing processes, generate solutions, and actively address them for continuous improvement.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Applications Systems Design, or other related Data Processing field of study.
• 8+ years' experience in the software quality assurance industry with strong QA process knowledge.
• Excellent testing skills and experience with commercial software development processes, SaaS or ASP (Application Service Provider) for browser-based applications, client/server application and database driven applications on Unix/Linux, Windows.
• Demonstrable project management experience in successfully delivering multiple testing engagements, preferably in a global organization.
• Strong with RDBMS and NoSQL skills with the ability to generate complex queries.
• Ability to develop and implement test automation strategies.
• Collaborate with development and Product management team for current and future releases.
• Proficiency with test management tools like QTEST, JIRA, Quality Center.
• Proficiency in QA concepts and methodologies.
• Proficiency in C++/C or python.
• Proficiency in GitHub/SVN.
• Ability to explore new/latest testing tools as per the product requirement.
• Should have hands on experience in migration, upgrade, integration, end to end testing
• Should have hands on experience in building automation framework for GUI and API/Webservices.
• Should have …