QA Automation Engineer (Java)

Zodiac Interactive one of the leading developers of software for interactive TV in the USA is currently seeking to hire a QA Automation Engineer.
Our project is a highly loaded server application which ensures interaction between end users’ subscriber devices and services provided by cable TV operators.
We use a microservice architecture and develop both our products and the test infrastructure with the help of Java 8. The following technologies and frameworks are used: Jenkins, Git, Docker, testNG.

Responsibilities may include the following tasks:

• developing functional automatic tests;
• refactoring and updating existing tests and test framework components;
• configuring, updating and development performance and load testing environment and framework;
• performance and load testing; analyzing test results;
• product issues investigation;
• work as a member of software project team, in collaboration with other members, possible located in different regions.

Required skills & behaviours:

• strong knowledge of Java SE - in particular, the implementation of network interaction (tcp, udp, http), multithreading, JDBC API;
• understanding of OOP principles and an experience in commercial development using Java (products and / or automated tests);
• experience with CVS (in particular, Git);
• experience with common test frameworks – JMetr, JUnit, TestNG, etc;
• general Shell scripting.

The following will be advantages:

• acquainted with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra;
• experience with custom communication protocols development/testing;
• basic knowledge of Oracle JVM internals, settings and optimizations;
• basic knowledge of Java EE (Spring Framework);
• experience with Java applications performance and load testing;
• experience with server solutions (Tomcat 7/8);
• experience with Docker;
• experience with Jenkins.