QA Engineer (Coding experience required)

Job description

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team!

Responsibilities:

• Provides guidance and subject matter expertise to Engineers on testing and Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and processes.

• Works with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via automated testing.

• Responsible for managing the definition, implementation, and integration of quality principles into the design and development of software and IT processes.

• Involved in the review of requirements specifications for weaknesses in function, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security and compliance testing, and provides recommendations.

• Responsible for developing manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements.

• Monitors and tracks resolution of defects, coordinating with Engineers in order to prevent, report, and resolve.

• Designs, monitors, and analyzes Quality Assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status.

• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.

• This “rebel with a cause” looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue Visa sponsorship for these positions.

Desired profile

·  3+ years of experience in IT, with an emphasis on QA, and running functional, automated, or performance tests required.

·  Experience in Core Java required.

·  Experience with web service and back-end service required; API tools such as Soap Service , HTTPClient, SoapClient, jaws, jaxb etc preferred.

·  Ability to create to create testclient and service test framework using Java for web services required.

·  Ability to create create Java test utilities preferred.
·  Exposure to tools like Maven, Sub Version, Junit/TestNG, Eclipse/IntelliJ IDE, Jenkins.

·  Experience in white box (component ) testing preferred.

·  Experience with Agile, other rapid application development methods or Waterfall SDLC preferred.

·  Experience in working with testing automation tools - JUnit or Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver) required (both preferred); JMeter and Eclipse are a plus.
·  Solid experience in test-driven development, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing.

·  Strong written and verbal communication skills.

·  Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges.

·  Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.

·  Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.

·  Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other Technical disciplines, or equivalent work experience, is preferred.

·  Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation is a plus.

·  Knowledge of web security and encryption technology is a plus.

·  Any of the following test certifications - QAI, ASQ, IIST, ISEB, ISTQB - are a plus.

·  Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue Visa sponsorship for these positions.

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