Palo Alto, CA
Server Side Quality Assurance Engineer
You are an experienced Software QA Engineer who is energetic, motivated, smart, and interested in working with a team comprised of same. You leverage your technical and analytical background to successfully perform your trade, and you get that detail-orientation isn’t a soft requirement but an absolute necessity for outstanding work.
If working in an enterprise level position on a complex and highly-extensible platform sounds like something exciting, you meet the requirements listed below, and you’ve read about (and identified with our company culture) then we’re ready to talk!
Responsibilities
    Review preliminary spec designs
    Design test cases using functional requirements
    Run test scripts and validate functionality
    Perform regression/verification testing
    Find and file defects; verify fixed deficiencies
    Debug server side/problem solve
    Test for scale
    Maintain enterprise deployments
    Work with developers to insure a successful, high quality release

Requirements
    B.S. in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent experience
    Finance or Mathematics background is a plus
    Firm grasp of Back End QA methodologies with a focus on scale performance
    Experience with Linux/Unix
    Strong Shell scripting, Python or Perl
    Oracle, Postgres and/or other database know-how
    Working knowledge of SQL
    Systems administration experience highly preferred
    Ability to work in a fast moving environment with quick turnaround objectives
    Excellent teamwork, independent decision making, and written/verbal communication skills
    Analytical thinking, problem solving, trouble shooting and attention to detail a must
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