Job opening - Sr. QA Engineer (eHow.com) at Demand Media (Santa Monica, CA)

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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 onlin! e 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 QA engineer  with strong black box testing skills and a willing contributor to our automated test framework.

This includes :

Testing - Quickly test and deploy code in an agile/fluid release proces! s with as many as 5 pushes per day

Release - Parti! cipate in various roles in the daily push process through organization, scheduling, and communication

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

Offshore - Interface daily with your team of automation and blackbox engineers based offshore to ensure around the clock testing

Code - Get hands on with our website and automation code to debug and troubleshoot errors encountered during testing

Requirements:

5+ years of experience testing consumer websites

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 executing and contributing towards ! test automation frameworks for web applications

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

Strong knowledge of web technologies, including: HTTP protocol, CSS, JS, HTML, XML, JSON

Experience with native Mobile and Mobile Web application testing

Experience with web testing tools such as Firebug and Fiddler

Pluses:

1 - 3 years of creating automated tests with Selenium

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

Ability to read and write code to troubleshoot, reverse engineer, and confirm bugs/fixes

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

Strong operatio! nal and build management experience

Testing systems with mu! lti-layer caching

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

Experience working with offshore teams

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