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AT&T AdWorks Assoc Dir-Q & A Eng, Advertising Solutions-San Francisco, CA Job Details

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Job Ref. #:  1211000
Industry:  Skilled Trades- other
Job Type:  Full Time
State:  California
City:  San Francisco
Job Description: 

AT&T AdWorks is rapidly growing in expectation of becoming AT&T’s next billion dollar business. We are looking for both industry veterans and strong leaders who revel in the prospect of building a better approach to advertising sales that uses the inherent strengths of the world’s largest telecommunications company. AT&T AdWorks is the face to the market for AT&T’s newest ad products across IPTV, Mobile, and Online.


The QA Associate Director will lead the QA team and be responsible for working with Product Engineering leads to develop test plans, processes, and schedules. Expected to help ensure smooth releases of top-quality products on predictable timelines. Responsible for a significant investment effort to build (and/or buy) and adopt best-in-class test automation tools that amplify the impact of our CI processes. Continuous testing via automation is at the core of our software development process; s/he must be both a leader and an enabler for efforts to expand the use of test automation across the division via evangelizing and education.


We are looking for someone who is excited about the agile development process, believes in the goal of testing software with software, and is committed to driving quality using agile best practices. The ideal candidate will have expertise with performance testing, functional testing, unit testing, and regression testing of consumer applications, especially consumer web sites, and will be able to revise and augment our existing processes to maintain high velocity without sacrificing product quality. While s/he should be technical enough to “get her hands dirty” – by, say, sniffing network traffic and digging through stack traces to triage a SEV-1 production issue – this is a leadership/management role; strong communication and organizational skills are a must. S/he will be familiar and comfortable with scrum, XP, or TDD methodologies, as well as experience with and an appreciation of modern web application frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails or Django. It goes without saying that s/he needs to bring a firm understanding of QA’s role in the iterative software development life cycle that is at the heart of agile engineering, as well as a mastery of testing strategies/techniques for white-, black- and gray-box QA.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:


  • Oversee teams of Test Software Engineers, and QA Analysts to guide functional, regression, and performance testing.
  • Build a high-performance, high-throughput performance testing system to not only perform performance regression testing from release to release, but also to determine the maximum throughput of each platform or product.


  • Work closely with product, architecture, and engineering leads to establish and enforce QA processes across the consumer products division
  • Work closely with these same groups to standardize test tools and test reporting
  • Work closely with Test Managers and Engineering leads to evaluate unit test coverage and advocate Test Driven Development within engineering teams
  • Evaluate software requirements process, and integrate QA into this process
  • Educate product development on QA test tools for visibility on test cases and test results
  • Evaluate scrum tools, and project management process to ensure QA involvement and feedback
  • Evaluate Test Managers performance, and achievement
  • Communicate QA progress and status to upper management
  • Advocate for QA – with an emphasis on automated testing – throughout the organization
  • Expand automated testing strategies using tools such as Selenium, unit testing frameworks, varnish, etc.
Qualifications:


  • 7 years of QA experience with an exposure to test driven development
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS (or related) or equivalent industry experience, MS Preferred
  • Management experience in a QA or software engineering team
  • Experience with modern web application frameworks – Rails, Django, Grails, Spring, etc. – in a consumer-facing environment
  • Experience with serverside and API applications, preferably in Java, and database infrastructure such as Oracle 10g RAC, MySQL and Hadoop
  • Experience with agile software development – TDD, scrum, XP, continuous integration
  • Extensive background in QA methodologies and experience developing and executing comprehensive test suites, including test plan and test case management
  • Experience launching high-volume, high-availability, 24x7 applications
  • Mastery of basic Internet services (you know what DNS is and how to use it) and Linux system basics (you know what grep is and how to use it)
  • Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming (esp. Ruby and Java); able to read code and understand code
  • Understanding of standard software debugging tools: profilers, tracers, debuggers, leak-checkers, etc.
  • Familiarity with test automation & load testing tools (jMeter etc)
  • Familiarity with modern IDEs (Eclipse, IDEA, XCode, etc.)
  • Experience in test automation and test automation tools
  • Experience with open source software
  • Database or SQL experience is a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to handle/organize multiple complex technical projects simultaneously
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills
  • Must be able to work both independently and as part of a team, and thrive on technical challenges
Employer:  AT&T
02/11/2012

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