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Whitebox Software Test Engineer

Location: Emeryville, CA

Department: Quality Assurance

Type: Contracted to Full Time

Min. Experience: Mid Level

Location Labs is a growing, fast moving company.  Our test engineers need to be take charge, confident, and knowledgable about their products.  The Whitebox testers even more so - you must keep up with a team of brilliant developers, speak from a position of knowledge, and maintain crucial attention to detail.  

Location Labs QA team members are responsible for “assuring the quality” of software products before they are released to customers. Ability to self-schedule, lateral thinking, and attention to detail are essential traits.

This is an ideal position for people with Quality Assurance experience who want to take the lead and grow into a senior and influential tester at a fast growing company.

Job Qualifications:

  • Confidence with web browsers
  • Confidence with mobile phones
  • Willingness to learn new technologies
  • Good organizational skills
  • Willingness to take personal responsibility for the welfare of a product
  • Understanding of test & experiment design
  • Experience in test automation or quality assurance
  • Experience with iOS or Android
  • Familiarity with MySQL, Unix environment
  • Any programming or scripting experience

Bonus Knowledge Categories:

  • Java or Python
  • Splunk
  • Nagios

Responsibilities:

  • Demonstrate clear and detailed understanding of the internal mechanisms of servers
    • Predict how future changes will impact these, and need to be tested
  • Design test cases for internal server components
    • Perform both regression tests and ongoing tests, automated and manual
  • Implement ongoing automated smoke/regression testing on deployed systems
  • Conduct ongoing operational evaluations, including load levels and fragile pieces
  • Review unit tests to evaluate coverage & levels
  • Review code/ongoing commits to evaluate test coverage

Location Labs is a cash-flow positive, profitable, and fast growing company that operates in the mobile location based services space. For two years running, we’ve been named to the Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. Our team has grown to nearly 100 employees and most of us are foodies, musicians, ultimate Frisbee players, or fun in other ways.
 

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How to Apply

To be considered for this position, send your resume to joelg@locationlabs.com. Be sure to include the job title in the subject.