Senior Quality Engineer

Job Summary

The MathWorks is looking for a smart, creative and energetic Senior Quality Engineer with expertise in internet scale distributed systems whose interest, curiosity and passion drives innovation and production quality to new levels. Successful candidates will work on an enthusiastic engineering team who share a passion for getting things done and delivering high quality and well-crafted code. Quality is a top priority.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role:
  • influencing requirements specifications
  • ensuring testability of the application, engaging with developers in the design phase
  • designing and developing high quality tests including functional, performance, reliability, security, fuzzy, destructive
• Collaborate in a fast paced Agile environment with a highly cross-functional team
• Review and triage bugs, working with quality, software engineers and management to categorized and prioritize
• Perform bug analysis, code churn and other quality analysis
• Foster a continuous process improvement environment

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of Commercial Software Quality Engineering experience, with extensive experience with Java
• Automated testing experience
• Effective analytical and problem isolation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task, triage issues, react well to changes, and work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Plusses:

• Automated testing experience with distributed systems, web services and/or virtualization
• Experience with load, performance, and profiling tools (JMeter, YourKit, JProfiler)
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Maven, TeamCity, Continuous Delivery
• Experience with MATLAB