Position Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Local Candidates Please) (Test automation exp critical) (distributed systems background critical)
Company Background:
Silver Tail Systems builds products to provide behavior-based fraud detection and prevention in enterprise networks. Based in Menlo Park, Silver Tail is VC backed by Andreessen Horowitz 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 ramping up for significant growth in the marketplace.
Silver Tail was founded by a team of fraud-prevention experts who also 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 minimize false positive rates and adapt to changing fraud attack vectors through the use of proprietary behavior analysis algorithms.
Job Description:
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will work with a team of engineers in a scrum team (Agile methodology) to test code developed incrementally over a series of sprints. You will need to be comfortable working closely with developers as features are designed, and be able to ask questions as an advocate for the customer. Test design must range from detailed functional testing up to system-level testing. This requires familiarity with networking diagnostic and traffic generation tools and methodologies. Since network anomaly/fraud detection is a developing field, you must be able to learn quickly, and be open to new ways of doing things. Most of all, you must embrace quality assurance as the proxy voice for the customer.
Responsibilities:
· Create test plans and test cases for assigned component/feature.
· Execute test cases and perform defect tracking and management.
· Contribute in building automated regression tests from cases.
· Developing testing tools and resources to aid in testing effort.
· Help define and lead the effort to implement quality requirements and processes.
· Work within the Agile scrum software development methodology.
· As part of a small team, creatively fill needs as they are identified.
· Candidate will be a supportive team member while independently working on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
Required Skillset/Experience:
A qualified candidate will have many or all of the following:
· Solid Linux user/admin capabilities
· Familiar with network diagnostics and configuration
· Experience in testing enterprise-level integrated backend server applications (distributed systems) and/or experience working in multi-function appliance/server (e.g. security appliance, router, firewall)
· Experience with component workflows, business workflows
· Experience in security application testing (familiar with rules-based, signature-based, traffic analysis based security) is a plus
· Proficient in at least 2 scripting/programming languages (Python and UNIX shell preferred)
· Experience working with automation testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Robot), and developing testing scripts
· Experience in a SaaS, and/or multi-tenant hosted environment
· HTTP(s) protocol knowledge
· DB experience a plus
Attributes
· Intelligent and creative
· Embrace new ideas (yours or from others)
· At least 8+ years experience as a quality assurance engineer
· Automated and performance testing experience with in-house and/or 3rd party tools
· Solid knowledge of testing techniques in order to apply risk-based testing concepts
· Strong written and verbal English communication skills
· Excellent time-management, multitasking skills
What Silver Tail Offers:
· A challenging environment with top-notch team members in both Dev and QA. Leaders in the anti-fraud community work here.
· Innovative technology that is catching criminals and protecting innocent users.
· Family-friendly work policies and benefits.
· Convenient location (close to Caltrain, Peninsula community).
· Energetic leadership with proven track record.
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
