Software Engineer in Test (QA Engineer)
Brooklyn Packet is a downtown SF based mobile social gaming startup hitting it on several fronts. First and foremost, our team is full of incredible, self-motivated people who get it. This allows us to attract and make a great home for A Players, just like you. Brooklyn Packet is also killing it from a business perspective. We’re self-funded and profitable. Our games have been downloaded in excess of 11 million times. We make beautiful, fun games for the iOS and Android platforms. We’re growing like mad in terms of users, revenue, products, and people. We’re positioned to be THE LEADER in mobile social gaming. Imagine being in at Zynga, Playdom or Facebook when they were 30 people.
Looking for people at all levels of seniority
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a knowledgeable and experienced QA Engineer who loves to build automated front end and backend testing tools. You will use your experience in QA to juggle all types of product issues and be a master of resolving big mobile challenges.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with both product and software engineers to help ensure the reliability of our applications
- Break down a product into test cases with solid coverage
- Report defects and follow up on them through resolution
- Report on release readiness base on test coverage and success rates
- Design and execute regression tests and protect our product
- Build test automation frameworks, and automate tests
REQUIREMENTS
- Love testing
- Several years of experience in developing automated black and white box testing tools
- Experience developing automated tests with some of the common frameworks in the industry today (JUnit, Selenium, TestNG, etc.)
- Programming experience with at least one language such as C, C , C#, Java, Perl, Python
- Strong in trouble-shooting skills
- Experience with MySQL
- Clear understanding of Software Quality Assurance processes as well as the various types of software tests: unit, functional, regression, integration, etc. and when each is appropriate
- Experience using bug tracking systems such as Jira, Bugzilla, Trac, etc.
- Comfortable with the Unix/Linux environment
- Must be detail oriented, well-organized and able to multi-task
- Very strong communication skills
- Collaborative approach
- Experience working on a high-traffic site
- Load, Performance and Scalability Testing experience
- BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent
NICE TO HAVE
Experience as part of an operations team supporting iPhone or Android applications in a gaming company
RELATED KEYWORDS
software engineer, Test, software developer, QA, QA engineer, reliability, test cases, test, defects, release readiness, regression, test automation frameworks, automate tests, black box, white box, tools, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG, C, C , C#, Java, Perl, Python, MySQL, quality assurance, processes, software tests, unit, functional, regression, integration, bug tracking, Jira, Bugzilla, Trac, Unix, Linux, Load, Performance, Scalability
HOW TO APPLY
Love games and be a gamer. Really! Play our games. It helps to play before you apply. We would love to hear about your experience and will talk about it.
Contact us at careers@brooklynpacket.com as a bonus; write a cover letter it helps as part of your consideration.
Do you have a desire to be at a startup with all the fun and craziness that comes with it? We would love to hear from you!