For more than 20 years, AEG has played a pivotal role in transforming sports and live entertainment.
Annually, we host more than 160 million guests, promote more than 10,000 shows and present more than 22,000 events around the world.
We are committed to innovation, artistry, and community, and leverage the power of our 300+ venues, leading sports franchises, marquee music brands, integrated entertainment districts, premier ticketing platform and global sponsorship activations, to create memorable moments that give the world reason to cheer.
Our business is interwoven with the human mind and heart, and we strive to build a diverse and inclusive company that reflects the artists, athletes, and fans that we host; reach beyond traditional boundaries to support the communities in which we operate; and minimize our impact on the environment by adopting sustainable practices throughout our business operations.
If you want to be challenged to up your game and make a difference, then join us in giving the world reason to cheer!
Position Summary:
The Software QA Engineer is responsible for the creation and execution of both manual and eventually automated test plans & test scripts as part of an overall Quality Assurance best practices plan.
The tester will work closely with Software Development, DevOps, Program Management, and Product Management in validating requirements, new features, enhancements, bugs, and usability issues.
The candidate will ensure best practices for QA processes are implemented and followed.
Additionally, the incumbent is responsible for the timely definition and execution of QA in sprint, which encompasses all automated and manual test plans for the company’s proprietary applications portfolio.
The ideal candidate is someone who is very familiar with validating data between Databases, SQL, Selenium, Jira, JSON, and GitHub.
This individual’s feedback to internal and external teams will help AEG Presents build the most immersive and scalable digital experiences possible in the live events industry.
Essential Functions:
Designs, implements and runs manual & eventually automated tests.
Designs test case outlines and optimizes manual & automated test execution.
Writes test and release plans for new product features and regression tests for existing features.
Finds and reports software vulnerabilities and reproduces issues reported by end users.
Performs white box code analysis through peer and/or vendor code reviews.
Works with product and business to align priorities and communicate high-level status of application health and stability.
Documents QA Test and Regression Plans in confluence for team member use.
Required Qualifications:
A minimum education level of: BA/BS Degree (4-year)
A minimum of 3 years of related work experience
Experience with black, white, & grey box testing
Experience testing and validating data using SQL Queries
Familiar with mobile applications testing
Experience with performance & load testing of mobile & web applications (JMeter, Blazemeter)
Experience with API testing using Postman
Has hands on experience with one or more of: Web applications with JavaScript (ember.js) and Ruby, Mobile Application testing
Has worked with automated tools and testing frameworks to optimize test case execution
Experience with ticket tracking tools such as Jira
Familiar with code coverage and continuous integrations
Comfortable working within an Agile/Scrum environment
Strong grasp of code design patterns and principles
Clear understanding of the relationship between “Front End” user experience and “Back End” database and experience testing both (bonus points for experience with querying data from a data warehouse to compare front end data points to backend table values)
Complex technical problem solver
Experience with automated tools and testing frameworks to optimize test case execution, is familiar with code coverage and continuous integrations, and is comfortable working within an Agile/Scrum environment
Experience with RESTful APIs and authorization mechanisms (JSON Web Token / OAuth2)
Object oriented programming experience required, preferably JS, .Net
Proficiency with build tools: Jenkins Circle CI Github Atlassian Suite
Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP
Driving testing projects and junior engineers in the team (in-house and outsourced)
Up to date with current innovations and relevant technologies
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with remote staff and supervising / approving outsourced code
Startup Experience
Fan of live entertainment
Enjoys solving problems and designing memorable experiences
AEG reserves the right to change or modify the employee’s job description whether orally or in writing, at any time during the employment relationship.
AEG may require an employee to perform duties outside his/her normal description.