Senior QA Engineer at MLB

MLBAM is seeking a Senior QA Engineer for an immediate opening. The Senior QA Engineer will be responsible for supporting and coordinating all aspects of an enterprise Web QA activities. A successful candidate must have 4 plus years of experience supporting an enterprise Web development environment.

Responsibilities

• Accountability for planning and managing test activities, creating detailed test plans, and performing tests
• Work with other QA Engineers and Developers to ensure overall system reliability, performance, and quality
• Work closely with business owners and CE to understand and test for business and CE requirements.
• Project management tracking; management level tracking of all quality analysis initiatives
• Work closely to understand and test for capacity planning and fault tolerance
• Test the application via Black Box, Regression, Release, Stress, and Negative testing methods
• Assist in writing detailed level technical requirements/specifications documentation
• Design, document and implement quality assurance procedures
• Create the testing processes and standards for the project
• Manage bug tracking database
• Interface with development team for the status of issue resolution
• Provide direction for all resources during the testing cycle
• Ensure that all aspects of the application have proper testing coverage
• Research industry best practices for software testing packages and processes
• Assist developers implement unit tests
• Assist in developing and obtaining user requirements
• Assist Customer Support with any issues that could not be resolved
• Develop Test Plan and Timeline; Work with Project Manager to Identify Project Risks
• Define Exit Criteria for each Testing Cycle

Required Skills

• Experience testing code to support QA efforts
• Expertise in testing eBusiness solutions throughout the entire life cycle.
• Strong expertise in scale and performance testing
• Expertise in functional testing
• Understanding with HTML/Java/Development
• Experience in facilitating usability testing sessions.
• Strong expertise with Automated Testing tools (SilkTest, etc)
• Strong expertise with performance testing software (SilkPeformer, etc)
• Understanding of different architecture platform constraints
• Ability to identify critical or complex areas in the system and test accordingly
• Ability to work flexible Hours during critical project delivery times
• Detail-Oriented
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• Ability to communicate with customers and help desk to define issues
• Desire to collaborate with others in a team environment

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Product Manager - Advertising at slide

Detailed Descriptions
Slide's Advertising Product Manager is responsible for management of new online advertising products and services for brand and ROI customers. This Product Manager role is responsible for all aspects of evolving Interactive advertising products and services and is focused on achieving goals around advertiser satisfaction, revenue, and consumer use -focusing primarily on developing Slide's banner ad and innovative widget advertising solutions. As part of a cross-functional team, the Product Manager works collaboratively with Slide's customers, management, engineering and sales personnel, and internal and external providers to achieve the growth objectives of the company and its customers.

Slide is the largest personal media network in the world, reaching more than 117 million people each month, or nearly 14 percent of the global Internet audience. The service helps people express themselves and tell emotionally engaging stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or on their desktop. Slide widgets -- including Slide Shows, Guestbooks, SkinFlix and FunPix -- are viewed by tens of millions of people every day on popular sites like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged and Blogger. Slide launched in 2005 and was founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin

Responsibilities include:

• Manage all new advertising product, including reporting and billing requirements
• Work closely with customers to identify market requirements, define product specs and schedule, and drive implementation
• Works with sales to promote, sell, and oversee the implementation new solutions
• Work closely with engineering and design to determine technical and design solutions, prioritize work, and build schedule
• Design functional specifications and make tradeoff decisions between functionality and resources/timeframes
• Ownership of Advertising metrics including product pricing and inventory projections
• Monitor movements of competitors and create appropriate strategies to gain and maintain competitive leadership

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of online advertising landscape and trends
• Must have a passion for the internet and strong understanding of web technologies (how they are implemented/served, and how they fit together)
• Passionate and active web 2.0 user and consumer
• Intuitive sense for product usability and design
• Experience in developing and launching consumer technology products
• Experience working with Doubleclick a strong plus
• Experience working in sales a plus

Desired Characteristics

• Customer focused
• Goal driven, creative and technology curious
• High work ethic and highly communicative
• Team building and mentoring skills
• Works well with engineering, QA, documentation, program management and operations

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QA Manager at imeem

Location: San Francisco, CA
imeem is seeking a full-time talented and enthusiastic QA Manager ready to take imeem to the next level. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and scaling the quality assurance effort. The successful candidate should excel in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Must be hands on and an excellent troubleshooter
• Able to manage multiple projects
• Ability to think strategically and act tactically and develop new testing approaches
• Develop quality assurance standards and processes
• Understanding of QA test plan and test case design, development and implementation
• Work closely with development team, product management and customer support
• Lead improvements in QA infrastructure and processes to maximize efficiency
• Hire and train QA engineers
• Estimate and forecast resources based on past performance data
• Lead by example

Successful candidates should have the following qualification/requirements :

• Requires BS in Computer Science or related discipline, with a minimum 3 years experience in software
• QA testing or software development
• 2+ years in managing QA engineers
• Knowledge of QA processes for regression, functional, system, stress, and performance testing
• UNIX and Scripting (Perl, Python, etc) skills required
• Experience with Microsoft .NET and/or Java/J2EE environments a plus
• Understanding of website technologies including AJAX, Javascript, CSS
• Understanding of relational databases and sql skills a must
• Experience with Agile development methodology a plus

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QA Engineer at imeem

Location: San Francisco, CA
imeem is seeking a full-time talented and enthusiastic QA Engineer ready to take imeem to the next level. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and executing test plans/scripts and delivering a high quality product to the market. The successful candidate should excel in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Help with acceptance, functional, regression, and performance testing
• Develop and maintain automated test infrastructure
• Help configure and maintain the QA Test Lab
• Help classifying and track bugs
• Help with customer support issues

Successful candidates should have the following qualification/requirements :

• Some Bash, Perl or other shell scripting experience
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux
• MS Windows
• Should have a thorough understanding of QA processes and methodology
• Minimum of 2 years QA experience

Desired skills :

• Familiar with the Extreme Programming lifecycle
• Windows, .NET, C#, Visual Studio
• Virtual PC or VMWare experience
• Experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, C, C++, XML
• SQL, MySQL
• Use of SCM tools like: subversion, CVS, or Perforce
• Use of bug tracking software like: Bugzilla

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Technical Support at imeem

Location: San Francisco, CA
imeem is seeking a full-time talented and enthusiastic Technical Support candidate ready to take imeem to the next level. The ideal candidate will provide customer support to resolve issues with imeem's products including the website and software applications.

Successful candidates should have the following qualification/requirements :

• BS in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of work experience in a technical support position or experience in a customer facing QA position
• Excellent written communication skills, demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Functional knowledge of Windows Operating systems
• Functional knowledge of web browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari)
  

Applicants with the following skills will have special consideration:

• Knowledge of MAC OS X
• Experience in QA methodologies
• Experience using RT: Request Tracker ticketing system or similar product
• Prior experience supporting complex client/server applications
• Programming experience

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CE Certification Technician - Day Shift at DivX

CE Certification Technician - Day Shift
Location: USA, San Diego
Description
Are you certifiably a stickler for details? Before buying a new product, do you look for the UL and Good Housekeeping seals of approval? Do you always read the instructions before you set up a new DVD player/stereo system/blender? If so, you could fit in as our Consumer Electronics (CE) Certification Technician.

We've got a great team focused on partners and licensing, but around here we’re known as the Ox business unit. Our motto is “Get it right the first time” and we prefer our coffee black.

The CE Certification Technician assists with DivX device certification activities and tests a variety of DVD players and other consumer electronic devices to ensure their quality and functionality meet the standards of our DivX Certification Program. Reporting to the Certification Center Manager, the CE Certification Technician updates device test plans and reports certification process problems to the CE Certification Coordinator.

The Everyday View

• Perform certification activities, certification testing and schedule updates
• Ensure DivX Certification standards are met for all devices
• Document and report certification test results per device and/or certification process problems
• Maintain and update RN support system regarding certification activities and CE partner information
• Report failure conditions regarding hardware and embedded software problems
• Compare the quality and reliability of video playback on multiple CE devices
• Participate in CE Certification support and inventory activities as required
• Work closely with the Field Applications Engineering team on certification issues relevant to platform hardware and embedded-software partners

The Kind of Person We're Looking For

• Minimum 2 years in customer service/technical support role
• Able to use the suite of MS Office products with intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and a good eye for video quality
• Previous experience working with digital video in a quality environment (editor, QA, testing, etc.) a plus but not required
• Familiarity with MPEG or H.26x video encoding a plus but not required
• Certification in multimedia development, video engineering or non-linear video editing a big plus but not required
• BS CS/EE or related technical experience

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QA Tester at TEKsystems

Location: Amarillo, Texas

Job Description:
TEKsystems is currently seeking a QA tester for our client in Amarillo, TX
The ideal candidate will have experience in testing green screen and browser applications, and have experience in data verification on AS400 platforms. Experience needed in some development of test plans and test cases, as well as regression testing.
This is a contract to hire opportunity.

Required Skills:

• Regression Testng
• AS 400 Testing
• Automated Batch
• Browser Testing

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Senior Linux Software Engineer at Chancellor

Location: Sunnyvale CA

Responsibilities:

• As part of the System Software group, participate in the architecture design for the next generation of broadcast data services.
• Code modules of the core operation system, memory, I/O driver, and low-level device driver in Linux
• Work with the QA department as required.
• Work with the Manufacturing department as required.
• 4 years knowledge and experience in Linux device driver.
• Working knowledge on MPEG video and audio drivers is a plus.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of five years experience in software development.
• Minimum of four years experience in Driver Development in Linux.
• Well versed in C development.
• Very desirable: Working knowledge of network protocols: UDP/IP
• Very desirable: Knowledge in VxWorks Device Driver
• Desirable: Digital video experience, especially MPEG.

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Quality Assurance Engineer at DIVX

Quality Assurance Engineer (Black-box)
Location: USA, San Diegox
Description

Are you a master at crashing software and blue screening Windows (more than it normally does)? Did you develop a “test plan” before buying your first car? Do you take things apart just so that you can see what makes them tick? Is the statement “Quality is #1” an understatement? If you answered yes to the above questions then DivX would like to hear from you. We’re looking for a quality assurance (QA) engineer to help us maintain a high bar for our next generation of media technologies for PCs, Macs, Linux, servers, embedded systems and consumer electronics (CE) devices.

Our video creation and playback technologies power millions of consumer electronics devices, from DVD players to portable media players, mobile phones, digital cameras, home media servers and the list goes on. To make it this far in the CE business, we had to ensure seamless interoperability of DivX content and devices across different platforms and competing brand names like Panasonic, Sony, LG, Roxio, Pinnacle and CyberLink to name a few. This requires insight, quality, precision and rock-solid engineering.

The ideal candidate for this position will have strong leadership skills, be well-versed in black-box software testing methodologies, team driven, never territorial and a poster child of Theory Y. If this sounds like you and you think you have what it takes, then we’d like to hear from you. Send us your resume.

The Everyday View

• Propose and help maintain quality assurance policies and procedures, including implementation of methodologies such as black-box testing, conformance testing, test metrics, defect seeding and defect tracking
• Lead a small team of QA engineers including task delegation and status reporting
• Perform ad-hoc, systematic and automated testing of software deliverables
• Thoroughly document test results and track defects until resolved
• Participate in development and implementation of test automation strategy
• Work closely with developers and product managers to conduct design reviews, ensure proper testing during implementation, schedule deliverables and resolve known defects

The Kind of Person We're Looking For

• At least 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance
• Good technical and intuitive understanding of how software works … and breaks
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle principles and QA methodologies
• Experience using software test tools and knowledge of how to properly interpret their results
• Experience testing native multimedia software, web applications, and/or device firmware implementations across a range of platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, embedded systems and consumer electronics devices
• Experience with best practices and varied engineering processes (e.g., waterfall, agile, scrum)
• Working knowledge of software configuration management and version control
• A passion for working in a fun, fast-paced start-up environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with DivX technology is a major plus

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Quality Assurance Analyst

Location
San Francisco, CA (Potrero HIll)

General Functions

• You'll be getting in on the ground floor to assist our QA Manager create and instill a culture of quality at digg.

Responsibilities

• working with the development team and the QA team to execute and automate testing, implement new automation tools, and contribute to and follow test procedures.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Passion for testing and the ability to work independently.
• Strong coding skills in PHP, SQL and/or Javascript.
• Experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of QA methodology, testing techniques and approaches.
• Experience with testing frameworks and test automation.

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Software QA Engineer at StumbleUpon

Our QA engineer will help us ensure the quality of code we release; develop and implement test plans to ensure robust releases on production systems. Duties include test planning, test plan generation, hands-on testing, and problem reporting. The ability to work independently and with a small team is important.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in test planning, including lab setup
• Develops test plans and reviews them with other project members
• Hands-on test execution of product tests. This would include test setup, execution, and problem reporting
• Helps maintain a standard development methodology, including requirements, test plans, and quality criteria
• Helps maintain defect tracking and test plan repository systems
• Assists with product specifications i.e. wish lists, future development, new ideas
• Tests across multiple products on multiple OSes and browsers
• Reproduce field problems and help support as needed
• Monitor customer forums and respond as appropriate
• Collect and analyze data to help characterize problems
• Manage day-to-day tasks productively without management direction
• Learn new applications and new tools in support of testing efforts
• Coordinate Alpha or Beta trials for the product release

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• A minimum of 3 years experience on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems
• Experience and understanding of Software QA methodologies
• Experience with developer automated test tools such as Selenium, xUnit or similar
• Scripting (Perl, PHP or Python) for test automation
• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and on a team
• A strong attention to detail

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QA Engineer at Hi5

hi5 is a global brand for young people, where over 60 million members have established accounts and personal pages. Members use hi5 to communicate with friends around the world, and to connect with the local and global communities that are important to them. hi5 provides a localized experience for its members, enabling people to connect with others based on language, heritage or other personally relevant cultural and popular interests. hi5 was founded in 2003, is privately held, and located in San Francisco. The company is profitable and is ranked in the top 15 most trafficked sites online.

Position: QA Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities/Job Description:

• Perform automated and manual testing of web applications
• Develop and implement automated test scripts
• Coordinate and prepare test plans and test cases with Engineering Teams and Product Management
• Work closely with Development Engineers/Product Managers/Project Managers/Business Owners
• Ensure product functionality meets all specifications

Qualifications:

• 4+ years in a QA environment
• 2+ years experience in automation testing web based applications
• Strong experience with automated test tools
• Experience with Bug Tracking applications
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux/Unix operating systems, relational Data Bases, scripting languages (Java, Perl, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML) and associated technologies

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, including stock options for all eligible employees. Please send your cover letter with salary requirements and resume via email to jobs@hi5.com. Please include the job title, QA Engineer in the subject line.

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Senior QA Engineer - Blackbox for Facebook at Slide.com

We've all wrote test cases, we all know the software development cycle, and we've all run test suites. We all know the essential three letter acronyms and buzzwords. But only some of us know that quality assurance is much more than all these.

Slide's Quality Assurance team is looking for such individuals. We take testing seriously; our QA department is a key player in developing strategies and identifying possible pitfalls at every point in the product cycle. You will be expected to be part of the team for day one, establishing a rapport with developers and PM as well as easing the communication between management and product teams. Our blackbox position for Slide's Facebook Applications has opportunities for growth unavailable in most other companies, if you want to learn, this is the place for you.

Slide is the largest personal media network in the world, reaching more than 117 million people each month, or nearly 14 percent of the global Internet audience. The service helps people express themselves and tell emotionally engaging stories through personalized photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or on their desktop. Slide widgets -- including Slide Shows, Guestbooks, SkinFlix and FunPix -- are viewed by tens of millions of people every day on popular sites like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged and Blogger. Slide launched in 2005 and was founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

Required skills:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience in a QA environment
• Working knowledge of how to test modern web technologies (LAMP environments)
• A drive not only to find bugs but to learn how the entire system works and how it can break down
• Experience in short product cycles
• Worked on dynamic content sites
• Experience with bug control programs
• Excellent communication skills

Good to have:

• MySQL knowledge for backend verification
• Able to read Python code
• Processed and/or analyzed logs to find problems or analyze data

Details:

• Full - Time
• Excellent Benefits - 100% Health, Vision and Dental plans available for employee
• Great Location - Close to public transportation

Link: http://www.slide.com/static/jobs#fbqa