Wednesday, July 18, 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



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 engineeri! ng 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


Release - Oversee an agile/fluid release process with as many 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 au! tomation engineers and assist in black box testing when needed!


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



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