Tuesday, August 23, 2011

[JimsJobs] Silver Tail Systems Based in Palo Alto, Ca seeks Senior Quality Assurance Eng

 

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer( Local Candidates Please) Individual should have extensive experience working with distributed systems,  background working with Java)
 
Silver Tail Systems provides behavior based fraud detection and
prevention against websites. Based in Palo
Alto, Silver Tail is VC backed by Andressen Horrowitz and Leapfrog, and been in business for over 3 years. Silver Tail has revenue generating customers and with the recent successful series B we are poised for significant growth in the marketplace. 
2011 has and will continue to see substantial headcount growth.
Silver Tail was founded by a team of fraud prevention experts who
built anti-fraud and anti-phishing tools at eBay and PayPal.
Combining experience with cutting-edge proprietary algorithms, Silver
Tail has built highly scalable products that minimizes false positive
rates and are extremely flexible at adapting to changing fraud attack
vectors through the use of Silver Tail‚s unique behavior analysis
algorithms. Silver Tail Systems Forensics and Mitigation products help
divert and block bad behavior in real-time. Silver Tail customers are
some of the largest sites on the Internet spanning multiple
industries.  We are growing rapidly and looking to
add high caliber professionals to our team. If you want to working with a smart highly motivated team and use cutting edge technology from cloud to big data read on……
 
 
JOB DESCRIPTION:
 
Silver Tail is looking for a standout quality assurance engineer with
experience testing
complex, distributed systems. This individual should be highly
motivated, resourceful,
and enjoys taking on new challenges. In addition, the candidate is
expected to be a selfstarter
who embraces the opportunity to learn new technologies. This candidate will join
an elite team of software engineers who are building cutting edge
website fraud detection
software. The individual will play a key role defining, establishing,
and maintaining
quality throughout the product development life cycle (PDLC).
 
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Work in a small, elite team to test the Silver Tail Systems applications
. Continue building out automated regression testing framework.
. Create test plans and test cases for each component and/or feature.
. Execution of test cases and defect tracking for all applications and projects.
. Developing testing tools and resources to test at every level: unit,
functional, and
integrated.
. Help define and lead the effort to implement quality requirements
and processes.
. Work within the Agile software development process
. Think independently and creatively to fill needs as they are identified.
. Candidate will be a supportive team member as well as work independently on
multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
 
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Intelligent and creative
. Embrace new ideas (yours or from others)
. At least 5+ years experience as a quality assurance engineer
. Automated and performance testing experience with in house and/or
3rd party tools
. Experience developing and maintaining automated testing frameworks
. Strong UNIX (preferably LINUX) experience.
. Proficient in at least 2 scripting languages (Python and UNIX shell preferred)
. Experience testing network infrastructure product (appliance, router, firewall) desirable.
. Some experience programming in a high-level object-oriented language (C++
preferred)
. Solid knowledge of testing techniques in order to apply risk-based
testing concepts
. Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
. Excellent time-management, multitasking,
 
Silvertail Systems is a leader in the anti fraud, analytics area in
the rapidly expanding market of the WWW and Internet.  We offer an
outstanding compensation package as well as lucrative equity in our
firm.  Please send your information to Herbnj@gmail.com

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