Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel Web site with consistently lower prices on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Launched in 2000 with funding from six major airlines, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel suppliers to help sell their excess inventory. Hotwire is a wholly owned subsidiary of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) and is based in San Francisco, CA. We're looking for a result-oriented, proactive, and creative individual to be part of our strong software engineering team. This individual will play an active role in all aspects of software development, from functional walkthroughs, technical designs, and implementations to release. Requires 1+ years of experience in test automation. Good written and verbal communication skills are required, as well as an ability to develop business equirements into a software solution.

Responsibilities:
General responsibilities description:

• Responsible for the current business processes and functional design review;
• Ensures that the solution is tested and meets the needs of the end user;
• Overall responsibility for creating and maintaining testware.
• Responsible for documenting, executing test scripts and test results analysis according to the preliminary developed test scenarios

More detailed responsibilities includes:
 

• Evaluates requirements for testability.
• Reviews business use-cases, prepares and executes test scripts.
• Ensures all issues are known before release;
• Develops / updates test cases and test procedures.
• Designs / prepares test data.
• Monitors test coverage.
• Analyzes and recovers from execution errors.
• Logs detected defects and verifies fixes.
• Participates in reviewing defects.

Skills Required:
 

• Experience in Test Automation - 1
• General experience in QA - 2
• SilkTest experience is a must
• English - intermediate, enough for oral communication with customer on daily basis
• Good verbal and written skills, with proven ability to communicate ideas
• Strong knowledge of OOP is a plus
• Intermediate Java knowledge is a plus