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Interested in working for what is considered to be the #1 most innovative company in Enterprise and Consumer Software? How about working for one of the top three (3) fastest growing companies in the world? We're one of the worlds largest and most successful 'cloud computing' technology (infrastructure and applications) companies and pioneered the multi-tenancy architecture long before Google, Microsoft or Amazon. We have one of the largest and most scalable cloud deployments in the industry (billions of daily transactions with 18ms of latency).


We're perceived as being a series of smaller start-up companies under a larger umbrella, each having their own autonomy to innovate and deliver exciting new products and distributed services. We aren't afraid to pioneer and take chances in the industry as we believe innovation is important and is best for our customers and their need(s).


Engineering culture is incredibly important, we encourage our Employees to take (1) one-week paid time off annually, in addition to their (3) weeks paid vacation, to work on personal technical projects from home -- go learn iOS programming, build your own Javascript Framework, whatever excites you, etc.


Don't be concerned about getting bored.. That's really no problem because we encourage our Engineers to move around from group to group. In fact, we have a policy that is meant to facilitate internal transfers to different groups without issue, interested in moving to Infrastructure, Core or Applications, no problem after each major release. We also informally review your performance every (3) three-months, which gives you a tremendous opportunity to move up the ranks whereas most companies only review every (12) months.


Consider having a conversation with us. We'd be pleased to answer your questions about technical challenges, titles and responsibility, and compensation.

Job Description

The Lead QE Engineer will be responsible for leading a high-performance, feature driven Quality Engineering team by example. You must have a proven track record of success, leading a technical QE team with a strong sense of quality ownership, customer advocacy, and automation strategy. This is a hands-on job that requires strong technical, collaboration and mentoring skills to provide leadership and expertise throughout the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring the success of you and your team's efforts. You will work with a team of demanding, highly motivated QA engineers and developers and will be expected to both challenge and be challenged. In order to effectively lead this team you will have strong communication and motivation skills, a deep background using object oriented methodologies, expertise in black-box and white-box testing methodologies, extensive experience and knowledge of building automation infrastructure and testing frameworks, utilizing standard QE and development tools, and the agility to operate within short release cycles. You will have strong experience driving tactical objectives in an assertive, fast-growing, mission-critical Quality Engineering organization. Operational knowledge and experience in on-demand, software services development is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

- Contribute to the testing efforts for the next generation real time rich media synchronous communication platform

- Design and develop high scalable distributed, complex test automation using Object

- Oriented Programming techniques in C++ to ensure high quality.

- Responsible for planning and executing functional and system level testing to test various aspects of the platform.

- Work with various cross functional teams such as product owners, developers, quality engineers to deliver with quality across the board.

- You'll be interfacing with various downstream functional scrum teams that are consumers of your platform to ensure they have the required tools and framework for their automation.

- Work closely with the performance engineering team to ensure that the platform meets the performance and scale requirements.

- Be a vocal advocate of customer empathy and risk mitigation. Provide customer support and respond in a timely manner to resolve escalated customer issues.

Job Experience

- Solid experience in Object oriented programming techniques using C++

- Good understanding of networking protocols including TCP, UDP, HTTP and SSL

- Deep understanding of multi threading concepts and the Linux operating system

- Experience with scripting languages - shell, python, perl

- Excellent technical troubleshooting, debugging skills

- Excellent test design and automation skills

- Strong knowledge and experience with test methodologies, QA process, and software release cycle.

- Demonstrated ability to apply appropriate test methodologies including writing test plans and test cases.

- Demonstrated ownership and initiative taking

- Strong leadership experience

Required Experience

- Working on complex functional testing projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies.

- Strong skills in C++ programming, design patterns and server side programming.

- Strong experience with object-oriented analysis, design and programming (OOA/OOD/OOP) and automation testing.

- Expert skills C++, SQL, XML/SOAP, JUnit, Selenium and Grinder.

- Using Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Test Driven Development.

- Knowledge of web services and XML technologies.

- Must be an independent, self-motivated team player that is meticulous and methodical in creating solutions.

- Proven experience in test automation frameworks development for highly scalable web applications.

Required Education

- Bachelor's Degree in CS or EE with at least 5+ years of experience.