Never Run With Scissors » Uncategorized http://blog.neverrunwithscissors.com "Inspiration? Inspiration is the momentary cessation of stupidity" Mon, 10 May 2010 20:17:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Looking for a QA-engineer http://blog.neverrunwithscissors.com/2009/06/24/looking-for-a-qa-engineer/ http://blog.neverrunwithscissors.com/2009/06/24/looking-for-a-qa-engineer/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:10:07 +0000 Pete http://blog.neverrunwithscissors.com/?p=231 The company I work for, Onalytica, is looking to recruit a quality-assurance engineer.  We’re after a developer-type that will focus on testing and assuring-quality – here, quality-of-implementation is a first-class concern rather than injected-as-afterthought-too-late.  Which is a rather nice attitude right there, IMHO! :-)

Other salient points?

  • We’re a primarily .NET-shop, but use tools pragmatically.  We have a build-script written in rake, for example.
  • We’re working on an internet-scale v2 product – v1 is currently live, successful, and high-volume.
  • Thou shalt buy-in to an agile process; automated testing (automated-everything, actually) underpins this.  You’ll be writing software to test product; scripts, test-harnesses, etc.
  • You’ll be good at breaking things to point out, clearly, how to make them better.  Personally, I’d describe that as a sadistic streak combined with tact… ;-)

[download id="4" format="1"]this is the job-spec[/download]

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Notes & links:

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If you need to reach me in the meantime, use my firstnamenotabbreviated.lastname [at] gmail.com address and defeat my anti-spambot encryption.

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