Looking for a Software Tester... (shameless plug)

[acroyear]

My company is looking for a software tester, with at least 3-5 years experience a testing (including writing test plans and scripts), and preferably 1-3 years at SQL (Oracle would be best, but we're flexable).  Telecom experience a definite plus, but not required.  Bachelor's Degree required.

The ideal candidate would be talented as user interface and usability testing, good at finding out where a GUI or web application breaks.  They would be specifically a "foil" for me, as I'm the one who designs most of the user interfaces out there and am greatly helped by having someone with a critical eye give me feedback.

We're located in Fair Oaks, within eyesight of the mall.  If interested, email me: acroyear at io dot com.

(We also have openings for cost analysts and system administrators; lemme know what your skillset is and I'll tell you if there's a potential match).

Comments

[lady-foxchase.livejournal.com]

Hey there!

I sent you an email - let me know if you got it.

[kowari.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU!!!
*shakes fist*
That's exactly the type of job I do really well and am currently looking for!
BAH HUMBUG!

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

hey, what's 10,000 miles and a complete reversal of seasons among friends?

oh well...

dammit

[zammis.livejournal.com]

*Sigh*

That pretty much describes me, as you probably know.

I'll drop you a line to let you give me a pitch, ok?

[shalanna.livejournal.com]

I'm also too far away to send you info (I assume you're in California--oh, how I'd love to get out there). But I have *ten* years of experience in software test and software quality metrics . . . although SWT was for the Dept. of Defense as a contractor, so that means I wrote test plans, procedures, and validation/verification matrices (after studying the specs that developers wrote and insisting that they write TESTABLE requirements) and then ran the tests and chased developers around to beat them with discrepancy/problem reports for fixing. Later, I used SQL through MS Access to pull the metrics to see how we were doing. *That* was at Alcatel, the French telecom firm.

Software test gets no respect. When development is late turning stuff in, the test schedule just gets squished, because they aren't going to move the release date out. So they simply tell test to get a move on and do three days' tests in four hours. Even though it physically can't be done. Then they get to complain that "SWT ain't done with the tests that were scheduled to be done last week on the software we just checked into SCM ten minutes ago--SWT is holding us up." We are holding you up, but in another sense, bud, or else end users would be getting really weird crashes.

As the kid says, "SWT happens."

uh, i'm nowhere near California

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

fair oaks mall, fairfax, va, outside washington dc.