- Company
- Black Duck Software
- Location
- Waltham, MA
- Added on
- 30/07/2010
- Keywords
- quality-assurance windows testing qa regression-testing linux database-management
About the Company:
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software in multi-source development at enterprise scale. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with using open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has distribution partners throughout the world.
The ideal candidate:
- 8+ years experience as a QA engineer working in LINUX/Windows environments
- Senior-level expertise in test automation (load, regression, …)
- Must have experience with Java and Web technologies
- Experience writing in depth test plans and test cases leading to successful product releases
- Strong UNIX/Windows and shell programming skills (Java, Bash, Perl, Batch scripting, SOAP, etc.)
- Experience with database management would be a plus (preferably PostgreSQL)
- Experience providing and maintaining complex, automated post-build regression tests
- In-depth understanding of the principles of Software Quality Assurance
- Understanding of software development life cycle
- Extensive knowledge in various techniques to enhance code coverage testing
- Experience managing testing in agile development organizations
- Excellent communication skills - able to interface with multiple groups across the company
Job Description and responsibilities:
- Create/Maintain test plans and test cases for Black Duck Software products
- Execute formal test plans
- Define and implement API based regression and performance tests (Java/Soap)
- Extend existing UI-based test automation suite (Selenium)
- Ensure and extend post-build regression testing (Perl, Ant, Cron, Java, XML)
- Work closely with engineering in early product phases to facilitate Black Duck’s agile development methodology
- Track features and bugs (Bugzilla)
- Enhance code coverage testing (Emma)
- Publish test related metrics and reports for company wide browser based on- line access
- Facilitate product testing in heterogeneous environments, e.g. WAN simulation testing
- Provide mentorship to QA staff members
- Evaluate tools and technologies to improve the overall QA process
To apply:
Job will be posted in the careers section within the next seven days. Send an email to: careers@blackducksoftware.com