Software QA Engineer
- July 17, 2008
- Email: tperez@lyris.com
Lyris Technologies is a successful software company that develops applications for email list management and marketing. Our customers are medium- and large-size businesses that rely on our software for their newsletters and promotional campaigns.
Lyris takes pride in the successes attained so far. Our products have received significant industry recognition. As well, in 2004, the East Bay Business Times named Lyris one of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Bay Area.
We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team!
Job Responsibilities
- Create, review, execute and maintain test plans and test cases
- Assist Engineering in the planning, scheduling and execution of tasks to meet milestones throughout the project lifecycle
- Provide accurate and feasible work estimates for product testing tasks
- Conduct Functional, Regression, Performance/Benchmarking, Stress/Load tests, and document defects
- Execute, maintain and expand automated test framework and test cases for current production applications
- Work with software engineers to define and implement QA and unit test plans, including dependency analysis, code coverage and use cases
- Improve software quality through testing and advocacy, with a constant focus on the customer experience
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in testing applications on Windows and/or Unix platforms
- 2 Years experience implementing QA processes
- QA process knowledge – application development and defect lifecycles
- Excellent problem-solving skills, including isolating bugs in complex code
- Detail-oriented and deadline-driven – must have constant attention to detail
- Ability to think independently and take initiative to make the project succeed
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills required; must be able to represent QA to customers, both internal and external
Desired Skills and Experience
- 2 Years experience supporting high transactional web and application server-based software preferred
- Experience writing, executing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts. (QTP, Silk, WinRunner, Ruby/Watir, ...)
- Working knowledge of SMTP and DNS – experience with email/messaging applications
- RDBMS Experience (MS SQL, Oracle, mysql preferred)
- Load and performance testing experience
- Experience with VMWare
- College degree or equivalent experience. Technical degrees preferred
Compensation:
- Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits
Timeframe:
- Immediate start for a full-time, permanent position
How to apply:
- Write a targeted cover letter that demonstrates you have visited our Web site and understand what we do
- How would you make a positive contribution to our business?
Please reference job# 241 in your cover letter and email it along with your resume to jobs-adm@lyris.com.
