Quality Assurance Engineer


Company Background:

Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men's, Women's, Children's, Beauty, and Home coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. The business model, based on urgency and scarcity, offers extraordinary goods at incredible prices, but only for a limited time. All of these sales occur daily at noon, driven by daily email reminders and alerts to a private membership. Most of the hot items are sold within the first 10 minutes, with the bulk of sales occurring within the first 90 minutes.

Position

The QA Engineer will be responsible for developing and executing manual and automated test plans.  You will have the opportunity to join a young, dynamic, fast growing Quality Assurance team dedicated to building a world-class organization at one of the fastest growing companies in NYC. We’re looking for somebody with a real passion for the software quality assurance process. This position reports to our VP of Engineering in our New York offices.

Responsibilities

•    Create test plans and test cases
•    Execute manual and automated test cases
•    Develop SQL statements to execute back-end validations
•    Participate in product requirement and technical meetings
•    Report testing status to technology and business teams
•    Review issues submitted by other teams and provide additional information as necessary
•    Provide support to the Customer Service organization
•    Train business team members on responsible applications
•    Meet with engineering and product teams to understand site functionality

Qualifications

•    1+ years of experience in software quality assurance in a web-based environment
•    Proficient in SQL and executing back-end database validations
•    Excellent oral, written, presentation and diagnosis skills
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related degree

If interested, please send your resume to careers@gilt.com