Sr. Software Engineer - Automation Lead (Mountain View)

We are looking for candidate to work with our offshore test engineers for our software automation test project. We seek an experienced senior software test engineer with hands-on capability, team player and a positive attitude.
The winning candidate would be self-motivated and a self-learner about new technology.

Responsibilities
* Design and develop both unit testing and scenario testing frameworks.
* Work with other automation engineers and build regression test bed.
* Build Automated test cases/scripts based on Web Management UI, Phone agent and exiting manual functional test cases


Qualifications
* 4 years of demonstrated coding skills and automation project lead experience on Ruby/Watir or Selenium based Web automation.
* Test based on Virtualization (VMWare ESXi, XEN etc.)
* Experience and knowledge of Automation framework (like STAX/STAF )
* Smartphone automation test experience.
* Defect reporting, defect reproduce/co-work with other engineers to resolve defect.
* Strong Linux and Windows background from deployment to install software and network management.
* Ability to accurately identify real world software use cases, software edge cases
* Ability to develop a clear and concise testing strategy
* Expert troubleshooting and reasoning skills
* MS degree or BS in Computer Science with related technical field preferred.

Minimum requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Information Communications Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, and 5 years of post-baccalaureate progressive experience in the job offered or as System Engineer, Sr. System Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Software Test Lead Engineer, or a related job title required.

Sr. Support Engineer (Mountain View, CA)

Responsibilities:
Provide day to day technical support for customers, prospects and partners worldwide. The individual should have a very strong technical background and be very keen in troubleshooting issues. Normal operations require managing critical issues, regularly communicating with customers, training on product features and providing on call support. Ability to reproduce customer environments in order to root cause issues will be key. The individual should be versatile enough to handle multiple responsibilities in addition to the support (i.e. training, pre-sales demos, field engineer/deployments).

Requirements:
Strong networking background i.e.:
• DNS configuration
• IP routing concepts
• Firewall and DMZ configuration and/or troubleshooting
• VPN and other related security concepts
• Packet capture and analysis
• Understanding of typical enterprise IT software (Microsoft Exchange, LDAP, ActiveSync, etc)
• Ability to configure, manage and troubleshoot in complex IT environments (Virtual instances, clustered environments, WANs, etc)
• Strong Linux or UNIX background from perspective of deployments, software install and network management
• Expert troubleshooting and reasoning skills
• Strong SQL experience and understanding of relational databases
• Understanding Mobile concepts such as GSM, CDMA, 3G, etc a plus
• Experience with smartphone concepts a plus
• Experience in client server architectures
• Ability to manage multiple issues while maintaining short response and resolution times
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and properly manage expectations
• BS in Computer Science or related technical field preferred


send all resumes to kbretz AT kbretz DOT com

Sr QA Engineer (Mountain View, CA)

We are looking for experienced senior software test engineer with hands-on capability and team player with positive mind. Ideal candidate would be a self-motivated and self-learner in new technologies.

Responsibilities
• Design and develop functional test and system test cases based on product requirement and specification
• Interact with technical writer, customer support and sales engineers and provide information about product user interface

Qualifications
• 5 years of functional and system test experience of Web/Linux Based products.
• Test based on Virtualization (VMWare ESXi, XEN etc.)
• Smartphone automation test experience or Linux based appliance test experience.
• Defect reporting, defect reproduce/co-work with other engineers to resolve defect.
• Strong Linux and Windows background from deployment or install software and network management.
• Ability to accurately identify real world software use cases, software edge cases
• Ability to develop a clear and concise testing strategy
• Expert troubleshooting and reasoning skills MS degree or BS in Computer Science with related technical field preferred.

Minimum requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Information Communications Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, and 5 years of post-baccalaureate progressive experience in the job offered or as System Engineer, Sr. System Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Software Test Lead Engineer

send all resumes to kbretz AT kbretz DOT com

Web Content Engineer (San Mateo)

Building out the core of our product, where search technology meets great UI and structured data. We believe in and practice scrum methodology, the scrum master, product owners, engineers and QA all worked together to create our awesome product. We are a well-funded and established startup which promotes local events to 10 million monthly users.

The engineer will be responsible for building robust partner API, feeds processing and develop algorithms to improve quality of content.

Minimum requirements:
BS, Computer Science or related field
3+ years of professional experience in Software Development
Experience in Ruby on Rails (preferably), other related scripting language (PHP, Python) or Java
Knowledgeable in Agile/SCRUM development process
Good communication and English language skills

Bonus:
Knowledge of rules engine, JSON and XML a plus.

Interested? please send resume to kbretz AT kbretz dot com