Position Title: QA Engineer
Location: Alameda, CA
Reports to: QA Manager
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**Position Summary**
Perforce is looking for a QA Engineer for our Alameda, CA, location and you'll
be a great fit if you are skilled at identifying intelligent test scenarios
and then thoroughly and reliably automating them. If you care about software
quality, have a passion for finding and reporting bugs, consider yourself a
collaborative team member and have had prior software development or test
automation experience, then we would be thrilled to hear from you.
**Essential Functions**
* Become an expert in our technology and develop a deep understanding about how our products work. Primarily responsible for our integrations products for Helix Versioning Engine.
* Drive the quality vision for our products and develop comprehensive test strategies to achieve it.
* Ensure long-term software quality by identifying high value test scenarios and automating them. helping in expanding the test framework along with manual testing.
* Enhance our continuous delivery pipeline, innovating on frameworks to eliminate manual regression testing.
* Collaborate and communicate productively with developers and testers throughout the software development life cycle.
* Engage in early planning to help identify potential issues before they arise and advocate for product quality.
* Enthusiastically share your expertise and achievements with the team.
**Required Education, Experience and Skills**
* Available to work full-time in the Alameda, CA office
* BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
* 3+ years of creating test strategies for complete software applications.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written).
* Background history of building tools and automation to make things more reliable and efficient.
* Experience with development and test automation in at least one web-development framework.
* Technologies needed:
* Programming skills with Ruby, Unix, Linux experience,
* Build tools: Jenkins, Electric Commander
* Automated testing experience with knowledge of some of following (Squish, Selenium)
**Nice to have:**
* Experience with Docker and Vagrant
* Familiarity with Perforce and Git
* Experience with Jira and Confluence
* Web performance and load testing/analysis tools
**About Perforce**
Enterprises across the globe rely on Perforce to build and deliver digital
products faster and with higher quality. Perforce offers complete developer
collaboration and agile project management tools to accelerate delivery cycles
-- from agile planning tools to requirements, issues and test management, which
then link to all source code, binary assets and artifacts for full build and
release tracking and visibility. The company's version control solutions are
well known for securely managing change across all digital content -- source
code, art files, video files, images, libraries -- while supporting the
developer and build tools your teams need to be productive, such as Git,
Visual Studio, Jenkins, Adobe, Maya and many others. Perforce is trusted by
the world's most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft,
and VMware. The company has offices in Minneapolis, MN, Alameda, CA, Mason,
OH, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Australia, and sales
partners around the globe. For more information, please visit
[www.perforce.com](https://www.perforce.com/).
**Perforce is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Minorities, Women, Veterans, Disabilities**
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