Software Tester I Part Time - Tapestry Solutions - St. Louis, MO

Tapestry Solutions, A Boeing Company, comes with over 30 years of industry experience designing, implementing, and training and supporting logistics information systems. We have over 650 employees worldwide supporting our customers with high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective information technology and business intelligent solutions Tapestry Solutions supports 85 defense, commercial and government customers from over 50 US locations and nine countries including, multiple forward operating bases in Afghanistan.

Position Summary

Responsible for maintaining and executing existing test frameworks and scripts. This position will assist with the maintenance of test plans and test cases and troubleshoot test problems.

Essential Functions

Execute and maintain test suites and test cases for new and existing products

Report and manage defects Regression test software fixes for new and existing products

Participate in Requirements and Functional Specifications reviews of new features and verify these requirements are reflected in the test specifications Document, troubleshoot and follow up on issues found during testing

Actively work with other members of the QA team to constantly improve the process, tools and effectiveness of the team

Assist Development with replicating and debugging problems

Other duties as assigned

Preferred Job Functions

(if applicant possesses software development skills, may also):

Create and maintain test automated testing scripts (and the configuration of the jobs that run them) for new and existing products

Collaborate with manual testers to translate test cases they write into scripts that correctly test the desired functionality

Document automation best practices and techniques

Maintain and adhere to software quality and coding standards

Typical Education and/ or Experience Qualifications

Enrolled in higher education or 1 year of equivalent experience.

Preferred: automation work is available to those who have completed or are enrolled in entry-level computer science courses or equivalent coursework/experience.

Qualifications

Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

Aptitude for cross group collaboration

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills and ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision

Good investigation skills

Preferred Experience in object-oriented or scripting language(s) is required to participate in automation work: (e.g. Java, C++, C, C#, ActionScript, Flex, JavaScript, ASP.Net, XML, Web APIs such as REST and SOAP)