Boston: Hiring QA Automation Engineer for Back Bay Start Up litl

Posted by Mia on Friday, March 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

QA Automation Engineer

litl is looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join our growing Copley Square-based software team. litl is the company that brought you the litl webbook, a computer that lets you enjoy the web without worrying about anything else and winner of numerous national and international awards. litl is now looking to bring multiple consumer photography applications to market.litl is looking for a motivated developer with testing experience to help the QA team identify automation opportunities in our existing test suites and build automated test cases. As a Quality Assurance Engineer you will work as part of the larger software team that’s building exciting mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows mobile.

Requirements
●Strong logical thinking skills with the ability to understand complex software systems; experience with several stages of the software development process
●Excellent hands-on debugging skills; knowledge of debugging and testing tools and techniques; similar knowledge of a modern Web application framework
●Engineering problem solving approach; ability to deconstruct and isolate failures into smaller work items
●Understanding of networking and web protocols, automated testing approaches, and monitoring/logging techniques
●Ability to work in a very fast paced and flexible environment
●Excellent written, verbal, and organizational skills
●Engineering bachelor’s degree; preference for majors in IS, IT, CS, or other computing-related field
●Development experience in Python

Nice Experience to Have
●Development experience in Objective-C and/or Android
●Experience with UI test automation frameworks

Potential Responsibilities

●Identify, recommend and implement automated test frameworks to support testing our applications
●Create and maintain a suite of automated test cases
●Build software infrastructure to help simulate and test specific device subsystems
●Perform performance analysis on current and potential future hardware and software platforms
●Investigate defects in our product, isolate and log in our bug tracking system
●Document and execute automated test cases
●Analyze technical features and help write their comprehensive test plans
●Submit detailed defect reports
●Review technical design specs and provide recommendations on specific testing challenges and strategies
●Perform ad-hoc testing

About
We’re a small computer company with big ideas. Located in Boston, we also have people in London, Brazil,the Greek Isles…you get theidea. Our 60 person team consists of software developers, hardwareengineers, industrial designers, user experience experts, graphic designers, software testers, evangelists,logistics gurus, and top-notch customer support. An unlikely mix, perhaps, but what we have in common is passion for creating compelling user experiences. Our four-year pursuit has been continually fueled by enthusiasm and excitement about our diverse set of projects. The results are always simple, useful, and delightful.

litl.com

To apply, please email mia@litl.com with your resume and cover letter.

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