Datalogix: Quality Assurance Engineer (QA)
Location: Westminster, CO
URL: www.datalogix.com/careers
You’re up for big challenges.
You are a high energy QA professional with a can do attitude who values team work environment. Your ability to work independently executing test cases while working collaboratively with all members of the Agile delivery team will make you a valuable member of our team.
We’re Datalogix. DLX. And we offer big opportunities.
This QA Engineer opportunity will put you in a better position for your next career move. However, we think once you join our team, you may not want to leave!
DLX is a fast-growing, privately held company on the cutting edge of digital marketing. We made our mark by leveraging the power of purchase-based audience targeting to drive measurable online and offline sales. Today, our unparalled dataset includes nearly every U.S. household and more than $1 trillion in consumer transactions down to the SKU level. No other firm is better positioned to deliver the right message to the right audience right now.
With a true entrepreneurial work environment, DLX offers top talent all the excitement of an emerging company, coupled with a proven 10-year track record of sustained profitability This winning combination of stability and innovation is an important reason why top venture capital firms continue to fund our growth.
Oh – and wait ‘til you see the DLX world-class work environment.
This position is located in our Boulder, Colorado area office. It’s a place you’ll love going to every day, in a part of the country that delivers more than 250 days of sunshine each year.
How you’ll be successful at DLX.
As a QA Engineer, you will be part of an Agile delivery team working directly with Development, Requirements Analysts, Scrum Masters and Product Owners to help ensure business, technical and functional requirements are complete and testable. Specifically you will:
- Develop and execute test plans, test cases and scripts for your agile delivery team. The type of tests performed will vary by user story but may include functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, data integrity testing and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptance testing.
- Identify and log defects, capturing steps to reproduce (actual vs. expected) and relevant details of the issue.
- Investigate root cause of issues through analysis of log files, databases and environments.
- Verify resolutions of tickets through retesting, management and assignment of ticket as required.
- Work with agile team members to help reproduce and further clarify logged issues.
- Demo the finished product to end users, agile delivery teams and other stakeholders.
- Participate in standard scrum rituals such as daily stand-ups, iteration planning, backlog grooming, etc.
- Proactively identify areas of improvement. Create and execute on solutions for the QA functional team and the assigned agile delivery team(s).
What you bring to the table.
Our management team is looking for a qualified candidate who will be energized by the dynamics of an entrepreneurial work environment. If you thrive on change, run with new challenges, and you’re interested in what you’ve read so far, you have the qualities we’re looking for in a candidate.
Here’s a summary of the skills you’ll need for this position:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Agile development methodology with specific experience in the Scrum framework required.
- High energy individual contributor with a can do attitude who values team work environment. Ability to work independently executing test cases while working collaboratively with all members of the Agile delivery team.
- Proven ability to develop effective test plans, test cases and scripts.
- Ability and/or willingness to learn to create automated tests.
- Must be adaptable to change. Must be able to work in an iterative development cycle and complete all test planning, test casing and test execution within a two week iteration cycle.
- Strong SQL and Oracle database experience including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints.
We’ll pay you to have a great time, too.
Our Benefits
We offer competitive plans for medical, dental, flexible spending, life insurance, stock options, and a 401(k) 17+ days of PTO and 10 paid holidays.
“DLXtras”
At Datalogix, we encourage community by providing a variety of activities that focus on fun, community service, health and wellness, and education.
dlx|health & wellness – Trying to stay healthy? With on-site Cross Fit training, softball, and kickball teams, annual field day, our team stays fit while having fun. (We also sponsor flu-shots, biometric screenings, and nutrition seminars if you want additional help in this department.)
dlx|U – Datalogix University keeps us learning. Ongoing training is provided on DLX-related and personal development topics. dlx|events – Work and a good time do not have to be mutually exclusive! At Datalogix, we host a number of parties and events: summer picnics, holiday parties, trick-or-treating, and Halloween costume contests, golf outings, and happy hours, too!
dlx|volunteerism – We participate in a variety of charitable and community events, coordinated by our volunteerism team. From caroling and serving dinner at local shelters to planting trees on Earth Day, we enjoy helping others and being a part of our community.
We’re Datalogix. DLX. And we’ve been waiting for you.
To apply: Please apply directly at http://tbe.taleo.net/NA7/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DATALOGIX&cws=1&rid=118