Senior QA Engineer
Date posted: June 26, 2008
Location: Durham, NC
Job type: Full-time
Industry: Computer Software
Description:
Do you want to help create a world-class testing culture?
BlueStripe Software, a well-funded startup in the enterprise systems management market, is looking for Senior QA Engineers. If you have the rare combination of deep technical talent and a passion for testing, we want you to join us.
We take software quality seriously. Although we're a very small startup, we have high-end practices, such as continuous builds, a fully automated end-to-end smoke test, heavy usage of developer unit testing, and a system testing automation framework. We've even invested in an excellent and enjoyable bug tracking system. Most importantly, our QA engineers are involved early in the development lifecycle, contributing to requirements discussions.
As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll be responsible for crafting testing approaches that minimize shipment risk. You'll create repeatable benchmarks for our product's performance. You'll design automated regression tests for specific features. You'll work closely with the development team creating our multi-tier product. As an early employee, you'll also help set our testing culture.
You must have experience testing complicated systems, e.g., a multi-tier product line, an operating system kernel, or a virtual machine. We write our code in C and Java, so some knowledge of these languages is a plus. You'll be installing and configuring a number of enterprise software products like databases and application servers, so broad experience in this realm is also a bonus. We develop software with an agile mindset, so you'll need to have a similar philosophy - exploratory testers are encouraged. Finally, cross-platform skills are a requirement - at a minimum you'll need to have experience with basic Windows and Unix administration.
We offer salary and equity compensation, family medical and dental coverage, and a 401(k). Our offices are located in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Category: Computer/Internet
Company: BlueStripe Software, Inc.
The Mission: The Bluestripe mission is to eliminate the roadblocks and guesswork of migrating and managing transactional applications on virtual server platforms.
The Solution: The BlueStripe solution will enable IT staff to manage performance of applications by fact versus conjecture when virtualization is involved. We provide the real map of the transactional application, its connections and dependencies, physical and virtual, as well as measuring the health and performance of the flow of transactions through the IT infrastructure.
The Team: All four founders hail from Wily Technology, the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Java EE Application Performance Management. From 2000 to 2007 we grew revenues from $0 to $110M, and were acquired by CA in 2006 for $390M. CEO Chris Neal was the Wily VP Field Operations for the Americas during this seven year period. He has over 14 years of enterprise software sales leadership experience, including Oracle & NetDynamics (Acquired by Sun Microsystems). COO Vic Nyman was recruited to Wily out of Tivoli in late 1999 as an SVP, with the goal of shaping a technology innovation into a sellable business model. Vic Nyman left Wily in 2005 to become CEO of Relicore, an application change and configuration company which was purchased by Symantec. Vic has over twenty years of enterprise software experience in various leadership and executive roles. Chief Architect John Bley was principal engineer at Wily and one of the two individuals responsible for the core Wily product architecture. VP of Business Development John Whittington has over 15 years of enterprise software sales and business development experience.