Job Title: Senior QA Engineer, Web Applications & Backend Services
Location: North America
Department: Quality Assurance Group
Reports To: Director, QA
Are you a videophile? Do you live for the latest posted clip? Can’t wait for your clip’s rating and viewing numbers to go up? If you love working with the latest technologies, are a quick learner, a great team player, and a hands-on person, this is your chance to join Sling Media in our continued quest to provide excellence.
Working as part of our testing team, you will search for, investigate, report, and track issues. Your duties will include leading a team in insuring the scalability, availability, fault-tolerance of the next generation in video social networking products. Both black and white box testing following both existing test plans and test plans that you write, designing new test cases, operating and creating automated test suites, and analyzing defect reports.
Essential Responsibilities
• Test Sling Media software on a variety of operating systems, networks and devices. • Basic experience with general practices and processes associated with test automation including test harnesses, infrastructure, and development (LoadRunner, WinRunner) • Basic understanding of code release management and defect tracking processes and tools (Bugzilla preferred). • Test and signoff production server rollouts and suggest rollout techniques to insure Quality and minimize customer impact. • Light knowledge of Linux / Windows OS, Networking. • Working knowledge of SQL Databases (MySQL/Oracle) and light SQL script writing experiences. • Interact closely with members of cross-functional teams. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with offshore teams across time-zones.
Job Specifications/Requirements • Previous experience as a QA Engineer on highly available, highly scalable, fault tolerant web-based services; candidates with experience in social networking and video collaboration sites will be preferred. • Experience testing commercial grade, multi-tiered web based applications developed in Java, J2EE environment using as SOA architecture. • Experience testing a public facing high traffic application running in load-balanced environment. • Create test plans, test cases and test data based on technical specs and requirement documents. • Work alongside Product Management and Engineering to define product specifications, with an emphasis on testability along the dimensions listed above. Coordinate with QA Management to provide an ongoing view of product quality status. • Highly motivated to solve problems quickly and completely; proven troubleshooting skills and ability to analyze problems by type and severity and understand complex relationships between various infrastructure components team player, high energy and positive attitude. • Preference will be given to candidates with understanding of multimedia (Audio / Video) formats / codecs / containers / standards (MPEG-4 / H.264, WMA / WMV, etc.), and compression / conversion standards. • BS in Computer Science or equivalent. Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #131) | 
