Do you have passion for understanding, breaking, and testing cutting-edge products? Xobni is looking for our first full time automated QA engineer. This person will work with the rest of the Xobni QA team to make sure we’re shipping stable, delicious software. You can read about our philosophy on QA on our blog:
http://www.xobni.com/blog/2008/05/27/a-different-kind-of-qa-calling-all-engineers/
Responsibilities of this role include everything associated with making our automated testing efforts a success. This includes:
* Building our automated testing frameworks, including tools, testing harnesses, and dashboards
* Developing automated tests on top of those frameworks
* Working closely with developers to understand product requirements, technology, and user feedback
* Working closely with the manual testing team
* Acting as an overall technical generalist – able and willing to do whatever needs to be done
We think the following things will make you successful in this role:
* Minimum of 3 years of automated QA experience
* Strong programming and scripting skills across a wide variety of platforms and languages
* Passion for testing and the ability to work independently on a wide variety problems
* Excellent written communications skills
* Knowledge of state-of-the-art testing techniques and technologies
* C# and/or Web development experience is a plus
* MS/BS in Computer Science or related background is preferred
Xobni is a two year old startup in San Francisco focused on improving email. Billions of people use email daily but it hasn’t improved over the past ten years. The only thing that has changed is everyone gets ten times more of it. We’re off to a good start so far; user reactions have been overwhelmingly positive. Check out our web site for more info: http://www.xobni.com.
Interested? Send resumes to ryan dot gerard at xobni.com