Monthly Archives: August 2012

Sr. (C#.NET) Application Engineer (NW Austin, TX)

Sr. (.NET) Application Engineer
NW Austin, TX

There’s a great advantage to working with a small focused team at a leading startup.  In addition to working in a stimulating creative culture in a casual environment, this is the ideal opportunity for a self starter to learn new technologies and trends.  In collaboration with brilliant Engineers, the Sr. .Net Engineer in this key role will bring C#.Net development expertise to the team to help find solutions to complex obstacles, generate new ideas into code, and serve as a highly valued member of the company.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Software Design:  development, implementation, and delivery
  • Unit/System-level Testing
  • Application Design/Development Implementation:
    • high performance design
    • coding in C#.Net
    • caching mechanisms
    • state management
    • error logging
    • scalability
    • environment configuration
    • proper industry standard testing procedures

REQUIREMENTS

  • C#, HTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML, SQL (5+ years)
  • Full Stack capabilities (Database to User Interface)
  • Enterprise software deliverables
  • Design/Usbility
  • BS or BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

Performance Test Architect (Downtown Austin, TX)

Performance Test Architect
Downtown Austin, TX

Fast-paced startup in Downtown Austin is looking for a Performance Test Architect/Java Engineer to join their Test Architecture Team.  The Test Architect will take leadership of technical testing, build and shape or buy the test tools, and work closely with the company’s Engineering Teams in an Agile environment.  The ideal candidate will have experience in test tools with a focus in Selenium 2/Webdriver and other open source testing tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead software/performance testing
  • Develop/Implement/Integrate testing tools
  • Team Automation Test code reviews

REQUIREMENTS

  • BA Degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline
  • Software QA Testing (3+years)
  • Selenium 2 and WebDriver expertise
  • Java Development
  • SQL and database technologies
  • Continuous Integration
  • Unit Testing
  • Functional/Performance Testing
  • Agile

QA Engineer (Downtown Austin, TX)

QA Engineer
Downtown, Austin, TX

This QA Engineer position available with a fast paced startup in Downtown Austin, TX.  In this role, the QA Engineer will be given ownership of the company’s major test and verification components.  The ideal candidate will possess strong troubleshooting skills and apply experience with SQL and databases to assess and verify quality, by using various automation tools to deliver high quality software and services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Collaborate with QA Team, Product Managers, and Engineers to resolve issues
  • Leverage automation technologies to extend test coverage and improve efficiency
  • Document detailed reports of software failures to reproduce and identify the cause
  • Assess/Test User Stories to find errors
  • Create/Execute/Maintain:
    • automated tests
    • manual/data-driven tests
    • service/API
    • performance tests

REQUIREMENTS

  • BA Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Software QA/Testing (3+years)
  • Analytical /Trouble-shooting skills
  • Confidence/Familiarity working in Agile environment
  • Selenium 2 and WebDriver expertise
  • Programming skills (Java, Python, Ruby, or other object-oriented language)
  • SQL and database technologies at an intermediate level
  • Black/Grey/White-box Testing expert

Linux Systems Admin (Downtown Austin, TX)

Linux Systems Admin
Downtown Austin, TX

Do you enjoy working in a collaborative environment that allows you to be involved from the beginning of the technical process?  This is a challenging Sr. Linux Systems Admin position that will entail cross teamwork.  Our client is a very successful world-class software startup company (Downtown Austin, TX) that appreciates integrity and skill.  The ideal candidate will have the ability to quickly learn and become proficient with complex applications, understanding their interactions with other installed products, and how they operate within an overall system.  This is a great opportunity for a technically savvy professional that is an exceptional team player in a challenging computational environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Product Systems:  proactively maintain and protect
  • Collaborate in operations with Engineers, System Architects, UX Designers, and Product Managers
  • Operational Instructions:  outline, write, and deliver
  • Unix Administration: using a shell and the file system to maintain an environment and troubleshoot problems

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

  • Linux/Unix Administration (2+ years)
  • Ubuntu (preferred)
  • Cloud Data Center
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Amazon AWS (preferred)
  • Java, PHP, Python, C#, VB Script, or Perl
  • HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, HTTP protocol, cookies/sessions, browser differences, web servers
  • MySQL; execute queries and interact with relational data
  • Integration and unit test frameworks (preferred)

Sr. UI Developer Position (Downtown Austin, TX)

Sr. UI Developer
Downtown Austin, TX

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop products for the greater good?  If so, we have a growing and very successful startup, located in Downtown Austin, that can provide that all around feel-good feeling at the end of the day.  This is the right opportunity for someone that seeks passion in their day to day work in design and development.

The Sr. UI Developer in this position will develop front-end design to help craft new applications.  The company environment provides an opportunity to become a well-established UI Developer with the ability to work side by side with colleagues.  In close collaboration with creative, product, and engineering teams, the shared objective is to create an amazing user experience for customers.

The ideal candidate will have a sharp eye for detail, an appreciation for organized code, and a high tolerance for detecting bugs.  Experience with Javascript, DOM, CSS, HTML and server-side scripting languages (PHP, Python, etc.) is a must.  Sass, Twig, client-side XSL, jQuery promises, REST, and Git sub modules are highly valued skills as well.

Build Engineer (Downtown Austin, TX)

Build Engineer
Downtown Austin, TX

Are you interested in working in a collaborative environment at a fast-paced startup company?  Our client is looking for a solid Build Engineer to introduce new ideas to the Agile Development Team.  The Build Engineer will integrate the Build System, run the automated test framework, and own/manage/improve release process to produce software products faster.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • continuous integration:
    • build/maintain/improve tools for release pushes
    • automated testing
    • release management
  • manage multiple release branches: using Git
  • automate deployment of application builds in multiple environments.
  • code/configuration management
  • communication with UX Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers

QUALIFICATIONS

  • BS Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
  • Build Engineering:  PHP/Java Applications
  • automating build and release processes
  • software/release engineering and/or configuration management (3+ years)
  • source code version control systems
  • Unix/Linux
  • perl, python, bash
  • build management
  • dependency management
  • deploy web applications
  • tool integration
  • Ant, Ivy and Hudson (preferred)
  • automated testing (preferred)
  • subversion and Git (preferred)

Technical Production Support Manager (SW Austin)

Technical Production Support Manager
SW Austin, TX

A strong Technical Production Support Manager is needed to launch the production group for a successful startup company in a .Net environment.  The ideal candidate for this position will provide the company with technical support and relationship management.  Responsibilities involve analysing/solving issues that surface throughout production in app/product support and deployment.  This is a great opportunity for a strong communicator to assume a leadership role with quickly a growing company.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage/Create Automated Jobs/Processes
  • Analyze/Problem Resolution:  Production Monitoring, User Queries, Ad-hoc Support, etc.
  • Assist in improving SDLC & QA processes
  • Deployment/Troubleshooting applications
  • Systems/Client Support
  • Customer Support/Testing:
    • status reports
    • analysis
    • track bugs
    • create knowledge bas

QUALIFICATIONS

    • Application Administration with Windows/.NET development (3+ years)
      • .NET, tcp protocols, XML webs-ervices and REST API
    • 24/7 on-call availability
    • SME Support
  • Windows Server and Automation tools
  • Productions systems (Load Balancer, Routing etc.)
  • Oracle and SQL (preferred)