Job ID :
7008
Company :
Internal Postings
Location :
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
Type :
Contract
Duration :
6 Months
Salary :
Open
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
24 Apr 2015
Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com
Primary Skills: Test engineer

Description:

Responsibilities:

- Write functional test plans to cover our monetization and advertising technology stack.

- Design test cases as well as execute tests.

- Report testing status to cross-functional team leads.

- Raise issues, report risks, and work with the development team to test and verify fixes.

- Define requirements for proper testing environments.

- Identify features in the product to enable better testability.

- Determine software readiness for release to production.

- Build automation to enable continuous deployment.

- Write automated tests to verify analytics tracking events on both the client and server side.

- Create and maintain integration test suites.

- Run load, stress, and performance tests and generate actionable test reports.

- Lead/coordinate with local and remote Test Engineers to execute comprehensive test coverage of the ads pipeline.



Requirements:

- Demonstrated ability to code in at least one object oriented programming language (Java, C++, Python)

- Proficiency in unix or linux OS, especially services administration.

- Familiarity with BASH shell scripting language.

- Experience testing RESTful client API requests and working with JSON or XML file formats.

- Familiarity with testing proxies, network traffic capture, and decoding https signals.

- Clear understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes.



Desirable skills:

- AWS or similar cloud services expertise.

- Familiarity with Boto scripting language for AWS.

- Startup experience or have worked in fast-paced, energetic environments.

- Github, Jenkins, Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence).

- Ability to troubleshoot the entire stack to find root causes.

- Knowledge of ad and metrics tracking (CTR, impressions, analytics)

- Be an outspoken advocate for improving code quality and ability voice your opinions.

- Good sense of humor and easy-going personality will fit well at Quixey.

Note: All candidates with prior experience testing search engines or ad networks will be short-listed.