Friday, June 29, 2012

Job opening - Director, Test Engineering (eHow.com) at Demand Media (Santa Monica, CA)

Please use this link to apply to this posting: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=o9CiWfwJ&s=StackOverflow


Demand Media (NYSE:DMD) informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Through a portfolio of vertical web properties reaching more than 100 million monthly visitors, a global network of digital partners, and a breakthrough content studio, Demand Media publishes what the world wants to know and share. Join the company that is shaping the future of media – how it’s created, consumed and shared!



We work in a fun, collaborative environment that is as diverse, adventurous and open-minded as the content we create for the world. We encourage all of our employees to learn and grow personally and professionally so they can assume greater responsibilities and advance their careers.



We’re looking for ambitious, driven, self-starters who want to be on the leading edge of innovation in online media ! and technology. This position is located in Santa Monica, CA.



Overview



The eHow stack is built using PHP, Python, MongoDB and the latest HTML5 technologies.  It is hosted in multiple datacenters and tightly integrated with CDN's to ensure 99.99% uptime.  eHow.com serves millions of page views per day and our servers process thousands of requests per second. Our team of 25+ developers ship code when ready and utilize agile development methodologies.  Code is always changing and while we rely heavily on engineers to test their own code we utilize a combination of black box testing and heavy automation to minimize negative impact to the business.



We are looking for a senior engineering leader to oversee our QA and Test Automation engineering teams and practices.


This includes :


Manage - A team of 10+ black box test engineers and automation developers both onshore and offshore


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Release - Oversee an agile/fluid release process with as ma! ny as 5 pushes per day


Product/Business  - Collaborate with product and business managers on scope, requirements, user experience and scheduling


Engineering - Interface with engineering teams to understand code changes, assess risk and ensure best practices


Operations - Provide adequate response to error alerts, review configuration changes and ensure proper monitoring implementation


Automation - Oversee maintenance of existing Selenium based custom automation suite


Test Framework - Provide architectural guidance, scope and feature set for next generation Python/JAVA based test suite


Hands On - Code with your automation engineers and assist in black box testing when needed


Offshore - Direct daily operations of your team of automation engineers based offshore



Requirements:


5+ years of experience managing software and QA/test engineers


Pro-active ! problem solver, seeking out risk/conflicts/scheduling issues before they cause launch delays


A strong sense of leadership, ownership, urgency, and drive


Demonstrated experience architecting and coding test automation frameworks for web applications


Experience with Python, PHP, JAVA or .Net development using Selenium and similar automated test frameworks


Must be able to read and write code to troubleshoot, reverse engineer, and confirm bugs/fixes


Experience with testing across multiple browsers and platforms


Experience working with NOSQL and SQL databases


Excellent written communication and verbal agility are necessary for cross-team collaboration


Experience managing offshore resources



Pluses:


1 - 3 years of creating automated test frameworks with Selenium


Ability to quickly create tests programmatically (rather than using a macro recorder! )


Experience with native Mobile and Mobile Web application ! testing


Previous experience participating in the dev/ops model


Strong operational and build management experience


Testing systems with multi-layer caching


Comfortable and productive in a UNIX, Mac, and Windows environment



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