Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job ID: 2013-17520
# of Positions: 4
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO).

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Responsibilities

As an Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you have the opportunity to accelerate the delivery and improve the quality and performance of Pearson Online Learning products. You will be working with world-class software engineers and responsible for designing and developing core foundation library and framework for automation testing and performance
evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

- Learn and own one or more critical functional areas.
- With help from senior Automation engineers, work with development team to develop test strategies, test plans and test cases.
- Utilize the existing automation framework to automation test cases.
- Learn to maintain and develop on the automation framework.
- Developing simulation tools.

Qualifications

- BA/BS degree in Computer Science
- 0~2 year engineering experience.
- Strong data collection and analysis skills
- Java, .NET or C++ programming experiences
- Proficient in XML structures and parsers.
- Broad OS and networking knowledge, an aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Solid understanding of SQL/relational database concepts
- Experience in software development and testing tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a good team player.
- Detailed oriented resourceful, initiative and creative.