Senior Server/API Test Engineer

NextVR is seeking a highly motivate and detail oriented senior automation software test engineer to join the NextVR team. The right candidate for this position is passionate about delivering the best possible experience for our users. Your responsibilities will include developing automation framework to validate server infrastructure as well as to automate API calls to verify backend functionality.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate and participate in all aspects of testing NextVR backend servers.
• Creation, augmentation, documentation and execution gray/white box, system, regression, scalability and performance test cases by translating high-level requirements into detailed workable test cases
• Capture, analyze, and summarize test results and provide detailed project status reports.
• Explore QA practices and processes and develop improvements in these areas
• Participate in software design and code reviews
• Lead in the design of QA test methodologies.
• Assist in the develop RestFul API automated test suite and home grown load test tools.
• Record and track defects through the defect tracking system and drive to closure
• Provide technical analysis and data-driven reports to stakeholder

Required Skills and Experience

• BS or MS in CS or related technical degree
• 5+ years experience in Restful API testing in jMeter or postman 
• 8+ years experience with Python or other scripting language for backend server testing.
• Leading 2-3 small team experience.
• Comfortable working in UNIX/Linux operating system.
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Agile and SCRUM methodologies
• Participating in and leading project experience is a plus
• Excellent organizational, analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communications skills