by Angela Guess
eHow.com is looking for a Director of Test Engineering in Santa Monica, CA. Responsibilities of the position include the following: “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.”
Qualifications include the following: ” 5+ years of experience managing software and QA/test engineers. Pro-active problem solver, seeking out risk/conflicts/scheduling issues before they cause launch delays. A strong sense of leadership, ownership, urgency, and drive. Demonstrated experience architecting and coding test automation frameworks for web applications. 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 NOSQL and SQL databases. Excellent written communication and verbal agility are necessary for cross-team collaboration.”
photo credit: eHow.com
