Senior QA Test Automation Engineer

To Apply: careers@scanscout.com

Date Posted: Sunday August 01, 2010

Company: ScanScout

Location: Boston, MA

To apply, send your resume and cover letter to careers@scanscout.com.

About ScanScout

ScanScout is video advertising that guarantees results. As the leading in-stream video advertising network, the company connects advertisers and consumers through online video maximizing brand impact and providing unmatched transparency and measurability within the industry. By utilizing breakthrough proprietary technology that ensures precision targeting, real-time optimization and brand protection, ScanScout generates engagement and value throughout the entire video-viewing experience. Partners include more than 1,000 premium and niche sites including Warner Brothers, NBC Owned and Operated, RealNetworks and Fox News. Based in Boston and New York, ScanScout boasts an agile team of founders from MIT and Harvard, experts from the digital media industry, and a distinguished list of partners such as Akamai, Yahoo, Ooyala and Brightcove.

Key responsibilities

This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of developing cutting edge highly scalable enterprise web systems. You will be responsible for leading our Quality Assurance automation practices and methodology. Working in a small and dynamic development team, your responsibilities will be centered on building a state-of-the-art test automation framework and also include some manual testing as well as new system feature development.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on QA automation experience in Java+Linux environments
• Expert in Linux shell scripting or another scripting language (Perl, Python)
• Experience generating and validating XML
• Solid understanding of the SQL language
• Ability to work in an agile development environment
• Motivated to build something new and work aggressively to meet new goals

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• Experience developing performance and stress tests for high-performance applications
• Experience working with Flash applications
• Mentorship experience
• Advanced engineering or computer science degree holders

Character Profile

• High energy level & excellent people/team member skills
• Good communication ability
• Adaptable, resourceful and independent