Overview
Xpert Financial, an organization with a new fully-electronic and registered alternative trading system for private company stocks, is looking for a great automation engineer to join our team as a Lead QA Engineer. You'll lead us in creating smart tools which test and validate our software and business operations. We're growing fast and creating an exciting opportunity to unlock the value of private company stocks (see news about us in TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, and CNBC).
You'll be working closely with our engineering and product teams, translating business requirements into test cases, success criteria, and validating releases. As a puzzle solver, you'll be exploring how to model our users, test for great software quality, and brainstorm ways to explore and automate our systems.
For the right candidate, this could be an opportunity to grow into a management position and hire/lead a team that grows quickly with our the rest of our company. Local candidates only please, this is a full time position in our San Mateo, CA office. Come join our fast growing company and help build the next generation of markets.
Please include a brief description of your experience creating new web application test automation suites along with a text copy of your resume in the email reply. We look forward to hearing from you.
Skills
QA testing in an Agile-lite software development cycle
Web test automation tools such as Selenium, Watir, Windmill, or Sahi
Ability to perform basic data analysis with mysql
Comfortable using linux servers for running scripts and examining data
Ability to work with application logs and basic diagnosis information
Familiarity with source control and release management (svn, git, etc.)
Previous startup experience a plus
Financial or accounting software experience a plus
Web application security testing experience a plus
Continuous integration or code analysis tool experience a plus