Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Low Code, No Code; C, C++)

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

“We are seeking a senior QA engineer (skilled in back-end/C++ application testing) to help testing during development of an analytic decisioning platform. You will be working within a team of engineers developing software from scratch (greenfield / new code / 0->1) to create the next generation software platform for FICO’s high-volume, low-latency decisioning and analytics execution. These capabilities embody patented and unique market value that drives critical business value in a high growth area. This opportunity offers a unique contribution role to work with cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a-kind business problems.” - Director, Software Engineering

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 ("black", “white” 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.

• Ability to start with a blank slate and fill in the details.

• Strong ability to test for performance of myriad scenarios without boiling the ocean.

• Excellent testing skills and experience with commercial software development processes, composable UI 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.

• Ability to develop and implement test automation strategies from scratch.

• 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 and python.

• Proficiency in GitHub/git command line.

• Ability to …