SR. QA ENGINEER
XMS is a Media Management and Apps Platform used by high profile media companies to store, organize, reformat, tag, and distribute digital media assets and build user engagement apps. The platform is a SaaS-based offering with a focus on the management of video, images, audio, and rich media assets in a syndicated, social, and mobile digital media ecosystem. Our product is currently in use at several large media organizations, and is the offspring of xif, a 15-year old interactive software development firm (www.xif.com).
We are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to own the QA process:
» The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in the entire software development lifecycle and be an active member working directly with a small team of dedicated engineers, project managers, and product owners.
» Ability to translate functional requirements into a comprehensive test strategy and set of test plans, determine the best tools/methods to execute the test plans, then execute the plans and track problems to closure.
» Our product is delivered both as a cloud-based service and an onsite installation. The backend is built in Java and Scala, running on Linux, with Flash and JavaScript interfaces, as well as APIs that return XML and JSON. Experience working with common, standards-based web technologies, including the breadth of browser testing required to deliver today’s best web apps is critical to this role.
» Proven expertise in QA Automation is important for this role. The ability to provide advanced QA automation and execute test cases against the entire spectrum of the application’s ecosystem (backend, front-end, network, etc.) is necessary.
» Strong communication skills with an ability to articulate and resolve issues with the team, provide estimates of work, and collaborate with product owners and engineers to optimize the usability and feature set of the product.
» The ideal person will have a clear background working for product companies rather than consulting services/projects. A trained background in software development is ideal, as is experience working in small companies or startups.
» Prepare and deliver reports to internal management highlighting urgent, traction-less, and high-risk defects, as well as overall defect resolution progress.
» Demonstrating a passion for QA and staying abreast of industry developments in technology, programming techniques and new tools being used in the QA field, as well as consumer technologies (e.g., browser statistics, platforms for expanded or reduced support) is important to us.
» Software Deployment and Release Management, as well as quality documentation are important aspects of this position.
» Maintenance of test environments including building from subversion using ant, running database SQL updates, navigating around a shell, using SSH, and working within Linux environments.
We’re a fun group of people, passionate about what we do, and thoroughly excited about our future. No drama, no politics, no micro-management...just great people doing great work. Please contact jobs@xif.com to inquire.
Interested? Please submit cover and resume letter to jobs@xif.com.
No recruiters/staffing agencies.
Source: Joel On Software