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Job Title: Senior Software QA Engineer

Company Name: Ariba
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Profession: Testing/Quality Assurance

Job Description:

Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand spend management solutions. Our mission is to transform the way companies of all sizes, across all industries, and geographies operate by delivering software, service, and network solutions that enable them to holistically source, contract, procure, pay, manage, and analyze their spend and supplier relationships. Delivered on demand, our enterprise-class offerings empower companies to achieve greater control of their spend and drive continuous improvements in financial and supply chain performance. More than 1,000 companies, including more than half of the companies on the Fortune 500, use Ariba solutions to manage their spend from sourcing and orders through invoicing and payment. Come join and help shape the future for SaaS (OnDemand) software solutions at Ariba, one of the proven leaders in this space.

The Ariba Spend Visibility Solutions, through a highly graphical and interactive environment, provide the largest companies in the world with detailed insight into how to better manage the billions of dollars that they spend on goods and services. Our success is based on employees who share a common commitment to innovation and creativity, and work together in a dynamic, rewarding environment. We are looking for a talented, energetic and creative QA Software Engineer to take on end to end ownership of several significant projects.


Duties and Responsibilities
• Develop test plans, create test specs, implement testing strategy, perform gray-box testing, and monitor logs and key metrics.
• Be customer-focused, stay on top of bug triaging, respond to customer issues, help development team with reproducing and debugging issues
• Coordinate with other teams to understand cross team dependencies on features and perform integration testing. Escalating issues for resolution by cross functional teams
• Be a content expert and guide the offshore QA team on new features and regression testing.
• React quickly and effectively to on-demand requirement and changes, be flexible to juggle among multiple projects and requests as needed.
• Design, execute and automate functional tests and prepare test data
• Be able to set up Robots or help with Builds and Migrations.
• Have a good understanding of QA processes and best practices. Maintain and enhance existing test tools and processes, and implement new ones as needed.
• Drive to continuously improve testing and product quality.
• Have a good knowledge of Java/web server based application development and debugging.


Preferred Qualifications
• SQL and database knowledge and experience desirable
• Ability to work independently
• Passion for customer success with our products

Basic Minimum Qualifications
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years software engineering experience with programming experience in Java
• Strong knowledge of and experience with software development methodologies and practices
• Working knowledge in utilizing XML and J2EE in developing applications
• Knowledge of automation and scripting tools like selenium
• Knowledge of bug tracking tools like Siebel
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ariba, Inc. is an EEO/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected category


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