Software Test Engineer- Web Services Team at Pure Networks (Seattle, WA 98101)

Founded in 2002, Seattle-based Pure Networks leads the rapidly growing wireless home network management market by providing next generation networking software that is uncomplicated, powerful and flexible and ensures all members of the value chain benefit from a connected world.

• We empower consumers and small business owners with software like our award winning Network Magic that helps them setup, secure and troubleshoot network issues quickly and easily.
• We help OEMs deliver products that connect easily to a home or small office network and provide solutions that help them better understand and service their customers.
• We enable broadband providers to cost effectively support their customers and prove tools for developing and delivering new services into the home.

Pure Networks offers a competitive benefits package, including: medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, vacation, and paid holidays.

DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS
You will be responsible for designing, implementing, executing and reporting on performance tests for more than a dozen Java and Ruby on Rails web applications that deliver features and services for the full line of Pure Networks products. You will be responsible for environment requirements, configuration and maintenance, as well as for the selection and/or development of the test toolset.

In addition to performance testing expertise for *nix-based applications and services, you also should be well grounded in the principles and practice of more general software testing. You should be able to reproduce, debug, isolate and document problems as well as verifying fixes. You should be responsive, flexible and adapt easily to changing requirements and tight timeframes.

• Demonstrated experience performance testing — including scale and capacity testing, load and stress testing and reliability testing — as well as monitoring and tuning of high-volume, database-driven applications
• Familiar with extant open source and open architecture performance tools and toolkits
• Adept at automating tasks in Java, Python/Jython, Perl, Ruby, Lua or bash
• Strong knowledge of SQL; experience with MySQL databases is highly desired
• Strong practical *nix skills
• Solid understanding of standard Internet protocols (including DNS and HTTP), technologies and architectures
• Experience with Apache and industry-standard Java application containers (experience with Tomcat preferred)
• Demonstrable exploratory testing experience and otherwise working without a net
• 3-5 plus years of experience in quality assurance and testing
• Strong attention to detail and ability to master new technologies quickly
• Strong self starter with a track record of success in academia or industry

Interested? email resume to: careers@purenetworks.com

or visit: http://www.purenetworks.com/aboutus/careers.php