job openings

Meebo is growing by leaps and bounds and the test team needs your help to test all of the great stuff coming out of our little shop.

Do you have a knack for finding bugs in anything you touch?

Do you like to take things apart to see how they work, or just to understand how something is assembled?

Is Python your middle name?

As a member of the Meebo Test Team, you will be testing the latest and greatest code that comes out of our forge. This includes Front End, Server Side, and mobile apps.

Requirements

• Your test and automation skills and intuitive knowledge about client-server systems will be a valuable addition to the company.
• Your testing efforts will result in improving our code quality and also reduce the defect rate for released software.
• Your 4-10 years of hard core testing experience means you have worked on multiple product releases from start to end and understand the requirements of a major release.
• You are agile and flexible and can change from project to project easily.
• You can write and execute a decent test plan based on limited design specifications, or in some cases a few screen shots and bullet-items feature descriptions.
• Ability to interface with multiple departments and report on testing status (Biz Dev, Account Managers, Devs).

Key Skills

• Solid UNIX/Linux experience (*shell)
• Solid Linux administration experience (install/configure any number of services to get a *nix box up and running on the network)
• Solid experience with Python/Selenium scripting
• Familiarity with the setup or configuration of various language stacks (Java/Python, C/C++).
• Strong familiarity with Linux Kernel, RPM Packaging, drivers.
• TCL/Expect/Autoexpect
• SSH terminal
• Familiarity with commands common in troubleshooting.
• Previously worked in the Advertising, mobile or web services industry (bonus points if you've worked with DFP and are already familiar with the advertising model).
• Active blogger/social networker (Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Wordpress, etc)
• Various Front end technologies (Javascript/XML/CSS/RSS/PHP/Apache)
• LAMP

Key Tasks

• You will be reporting to the Test/QA Manager
• Test Meebo front end code (blog plugin, sharing dock, meebo.com)
• Write or extend existing Selenium test framework (Selenium Python)
• Server side testing (be able to write or extend unit tests in Python, C/C++)
• Mobile application testing on iphone & blackberry (figure out a way to automate this, or test manually)

Contact us!

Submit your application now to become a part of the Meebo family!