ASP.NET Developer
NW Austin, TX

The ideal candidate for this position will be considered to be a leading ASP.NET specialist with the passion to maintain in-depth knowledge of current and emerging applications, technologies and standards.  This position requires an understanding for scope and high level requirements.  The Developer will lead the solution elaboration and implementation processes and consult on complex projects.  This individual may take on a leadership role to guide other technical professionals, as well as mentor and coach team members of varying skill levels and competencies to achieve optimal performance.  In addition to strong technical skills, the ASP.NET Developer in this position will demonstrate excellent communication skills, creativity, and good judgment.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Code/Develop software applications with:

ASP.NET MVC

C# .NET Web

Windows Applications

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 4.0

Support internal business, external customers, and application systems:

analyze, review, modify, and translate requirements into design

encode, test, debug, document, and implement apps

Identify/Describe program development (logic, coding, and corrections)

consult with users

write technical documentation/specifications, etc.

Streamline ongoing improvement of processes/systems:

trend reporting analysis

metrics management

Coordinate with DBA’s to create:

stored procedures

queries

functions

REQUIREMENTS
Sr. Software Development/Lifecycles (4+ years)

ASP.NET MVC

C# .NET

Object Oriented Programming

Systems Architecture, Infrastructure, and Design Patterns

Agile/Scrum

Oracle or MS SQL

WCF, LINQ, & XML

Technical Product Manager
NW Austin, TX

Customer-focused Product Manager position with successful startup in NW Austin, TX.  The ideal candidate will possess advanced professionalism in technical and business affairs.  The ideal candidate will have a genuine interest in innovating solutions for the market, exhibit the qualities of a visionary leader to guide cross-functional teams through the Product Line Lifecycle  and ultimately, represent the company to (potential) customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with cross-functional Teams:
  • process customer feedback, requirements, prospects, analysts
  • identify market conflict, competitors, and trends
  • implement new features with Development, QA, and Design Teams
  • explain company vision, roadmap, and best practices
  • influence without formal authority
• Communicate with (prospective) customers and company partners:
  • market-driven requirements
  • trade-offs
  • business/technical requirements between audiences
• Management:
  • Control Lifecycle/direction for new for Product Line technologies (planning/strategizing)
  • multiple projects completed by deadline
• Conduct Research:
  • identify market opportunities/requirements
  • 25-35% Travel to visit customers/prospects
  • market requirements in MRDs/PRDs
  • Perform detailed competitive analysis
• Development:
  • organize product demonstrations for upcoming features/products
  • create 6-12 month roadmap for product offerings

REQUIREMENTS

• Product/Program Management (3-5 years)
• BA in CS or equivalent
• Familiarity with UX Design
• SaaS and Agile development (preferred)

QA Lead/Manager

NW Austin, TX

The Lead/Manager is a strong leader that will manage quality assurance projects in an Agile Environment to ensure company QA best practices/standards/tests are carried out by the QA Team.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Defines/Tracks/Documents/Communicates project test risks/results/problems/status, and defect analysis
  • locates deviations from performance standards
  • solely authors test plans to lower risks/identity issues
  • leads implementation, development, and publishing
  • defines QA metrics (defect densities, open defect counts, etc.)
• Evaluates data and writes analytical reports:
  • feedback to QA Team after regular Agile Development meetings
  • regular test status reports
  • Test Cases
  • Requirement Analysis
• Determines Agile environment project estimations
• Continuously maintains Client product areas with all operating environments and architecture
• Improves SDLC & QA processes with Management
• Contributes expertise throughout requirements/design stages concerning:
  • functionality
  • usability
  • testability

REQUIREMENTS

• Expert Quality Assurance best practices:  methodology/process/deliverables (5-7 years)
• QA Analyst Team Management
• Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Test Manager, Quality Center, Test Director, Rational, etc.
• Expert Testing:
  • multi-tiered web based systems
  • complex data-driven applications
  • Microsoft technologies:  NET framework, C#, IIS and SQL Server
  • Product Detail-oriented Testing
  • GUI and Backend Testing
  • SOA applications (preferred)
• Troubleshooting to resolve testing issues
• Test Automation (QTP, Load Runner, etc.) and Management
• Excellent written and verbal communication and strong teamwork relationships
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (preferred)
• Programming with .NET, Java, C#, etc. (preferred)
• Microsoft Test Manager (preferred)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or Test Manager Automation (preferred)
• Selenium Automation (preferred)
• Security testing (preferred)
• Testing:  CSQE, CSTE, CSQA or equivalent (preferred)
• Financial Applications (preferred)

Dev Ops Engineer
Downtown Austin, TX
(relocation offered)

This Dev Ops role is ideal for a skilled candidate looking for a hot new startup in Downtown Austin.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design/Build scalable systems that support:

  • high traffic web services

  • back-end tools

  • applications.

• Plan/Execute projects to improve production infrastructure

• Maintain windows

• Ensure critical systems security

• Perform production deployments

• Monitor/Maintain/Optimize production systems

• Work with peers to solve operational issues:

  • services

  • tools

  • apps

EXPERIENCE

• BA in Computer Science or equivalent

• AWS/EC2, Linux, Puppet, Chef Python, SQL

• Systems Administration:

  • large-scale web apps (Apache, PHP, Rails, Django, etc)

  • mission-critical Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc)

  • windows production servers

• Large scale deployments (Puppet, cfengine, Chef, Capistrano, Fabric, etc)

• Production database servers (MySQL, Hadoop, Hive, H-Base)

• Monitoring/Performance metrics analysis (Nagios, Cacti, Munin, Ganglia, Hyperic, etc)

• Security/Performance/Monitoring best practices

• Python, Ruby and shell scripting

• Scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures, sharding, Nginx, RabbitMQ)

Sr. Systems Administrator
NW Austin, TX

A very successful and established company (NW Austin) in communications solutions is looking for a Sr. Systems Administrator to join their Technical Operations Team in next-generation operations support systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lab/Hosted computing environments support (Solaris/Linux/Windows)
• Hardware/Linux/Solaris machines installations
• Corporate/Hosted Data Backup Systems:
  • Operational Management
  • Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting
  • Maintenance
• Management of user accounts (local and NIS)
• Implementation plans for projects in collaboration with peers

EXPERIENCE

• Systems Administration (5+ years)
• Customer-facing
• Building/Configuring large-scale servers
• Operational data backup experience:
  • job monitoring
  • tape handling/management
  • troubleshooting system issues and server environments
• Veritas NetBackup Enterprise/Storage Foundation/Cluster
• SAN management
• Solaris zones
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (preferred)
• Technical Degree (preferred)

Sr. Staff QA Engineer
NW Austin, TX

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop testing strategies in a challenging fast-paced environment?  Do you have experience with Networking/Communication devices and embedded testing in a lab environment?  Would you consider yourself to be highly adaptable, exceptional in communication, and able to quickly learn new technologies?

The Sr. Staff QA Engineer will provide product quality/reliability to ensure customer satisfaction.  The ideal candidate will possess a working background is SW + HW, Networking, Testing, and Development.  This is not a heavy automation testing type role.  Salary range = $80-$105k.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Networking:  Setup/Configure/Maintain network devices within the lab
• Network Management
• Test embedded systems
• Client/Server applications
• Perform manual feature/system testing on HW platforms and web‐based management applications
• Create/Execute test plans:  schedule from lean documentation with automation in mind
• Analyze test results:
  • write defect reports
  • work closely with Development to isolate and reproduce defects
  • track defect reports, issues and resolutions
• Develop requirements for product features being tested
  • in‐depth understanding of the functionality, usability, and performance
• Develop SW/Scripts to automate and solve operational issues/processes
• Learn new technologies, features, and platforms (on own initiative)

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• BA in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)
• Software + Hardware
• Software Testing (5-10 years)
• Network Management
• Embedded Appliances
• Cisco
• Scripting
• Perl or other automation/scripting technologies (preferred)
• Develop/Execute Test Plans for software features on network devices or network management platforms
• IP enterprise networks:  designing, building, provisioning and testing
• Analytical//Troubleshooting skills
• Ability to adapt, improve and extend the effectiveness of new test concepts or approaches
• Comfortable working in Linux environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to write concise defect reports
• Configuring enterprise switches, routers, firewalls and servers (preferred)
• Cisco Certified Network Associate:  CCNA (highly desirable)
• Testing web applications (preferred)
• Network security and AAA protocols: RADIUS & TACACS (preferred)

Sr. Technical Product Manager
NW Austin, TX

A well-funded and quickly growing Internet marketing software company is looking for a skilled Product Manager .

RESPONSIBILITIES
Review high level information gathered from multiple sources and put it into detail
Product feasibility assessments
Conflict reconciliations
evaluate needs of user’s requests and needs
determine product definitions, possibilities, and/or flaws:
ROI (data-driven evidence)
financial
analytics
collaborate with Engineers/multiple teams to work towards product development and project plans
software engineers
executives
field personnel
customers
marketing communications/ PR and subject matter experts

REQUIREMENTS
BA Degree
Product Management hands-on experienece (7-10 years)
Project Management
Launch and maintain processes in development
Ability to formulate sound
Communicate product updates and changes
Start-up experience (preferred)