EcoFactor based in Redwood City, CA is a well funded (A stage) startup that is in the forefront of the Green Energy movement. We are setting the standard in the SaaS/Cloud solution to the energy question that confronts our country as well as the world. We have come up with highly innovative solution to manage residential HVAC allowing significant savings in energy bills by optimizing the use of energy for homeowners. Today's thermostats allow people to program or remotely manage their home thermostat.
EcoFactor's solution automates these actions while adding intelligence gathering data every day about your home building a custom energy profile. By utilizing Hadoop and other big data methods to analyze data EcoFactor's solution automatically optimize the use of energy!. Through Channel Partners our innovations reduces the carbon footprint and allow homeowners significant savings. EcoFactor also won the grand prize in the 2009 Cleantech Open national business competition, the largest of its kind, in recognition of its tremendous consumer value.
Sr. QA "White Box" Support Eng- Must be able to read and write Java
RESPONSIBILITIES
Perform QA and production support for our Java-based SaaS applications
Help adopt best-practice technologies for QA and production support
Help establish QA, deployment and production support process to fit into overall software development lifecycle
Participate in documentation, QA, systems integration and deployment
Work with product development, engineering staff to review functionality requirements and help establish test plans
Able to work in functional initiatives; successive (2-3 week) development cycles in Agile environment
Work with customer support staff to help resolve usability and technical support (30%)
SKILLS
BS or equivalent experience with 4+ yrs industry experience as support/QA software engineer
Hands-on experience in supporting large-scale SaaS applications on production system and performing QA and release management of complex Java-based applications on Linux platform
JUnit testing and testing tools such as Selenium
Knowledge in Clustered Java application servers, JMS, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, RESTful Web services
UI/Portal application, AJAX/Javascript
SQL and RDBMS
General networking and security standards
Experience in Java server configuration and deployment preferred
Knowledge in application server clustering, load-balancing a plus
Experience with embedded software/firmware testing a plus
Ecofactor is setting the pace for clean, affordable energy and efficient usage of HVAC in the market. Our cloud based SAS solution clearly addresses some of the major issues in the world energy market. We offer highly competitive compensation package, benefits, and equity in our valuable enterprise. Please send your information to herbnj@gmail.com
