Job opening - Senior QA Automation Engineer 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 on! line 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 Sr. QA Automation Engineer to assist with our engineering teams and practices.

Responsibilities:

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


• Engineering - Interface w! ith 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 guidance, scope and feature set for next generation Python/JAVA based test suite


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

 
Requirements:

• 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 NOSQ! L and SQL databases


• 1 - 3 years of creating automated test frameworks with Selenium

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


• Previous experience participating in the dev/ops model


• Testing systems with multi-layer caching


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

About Us: Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Kirkland, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. For more information visit: www.demandmedia.com

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