QA Engineer – Applications

Job description:

Aspera, a fast growing and profitable software startup in the San Francisco Bay Area building leading edge data transport technology, is seeking highly motivated engineers to join our software testing team. The position is an ideal opportunity to gain broad exposure to Aspera's transport technology and end user applications. Candidates with hands-on software development or testing experience, and a strong academic grounding in Computer Science/Engineering are encouraged to apply.

Do you want to be in a company where your ideas matter?

Do you want to be able to have a say in how software is developed and tested?

Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership for testing one or more applications from the Aspera product line;
  • Develop manual and automated test cases to validate the applications across Unix/Windows/Mac and all major browser platforms;
  • Design and build automation frameworks to test new applications;
  • Review and comment on proposed application features;
  • Perform automated and manual testing as required.

Required Skills:

  • Strong understanding of software engineering and testing principles;
  • Knowledge of all major operating systems;
  • Experience with both open source and commercial software test tools;
  • Strong scripting skills including UNIX shell, Perl, Ruby;
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
  • Ability to achieve results on tight time lines;
  • Experience with Marathon and/or Selenium a plus;
  • Programming in C++ or Java a plus;
  • Desire to change the world of network data delivery!

Desired Background:

  • B.Sc. or greater in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline
  • 3 Years of Professional Software Development or Testing Experience

To Apply:

Please send a resume and a cover email to qa-jobs@asperasoft.com.

About Aspera

Aspera Inc. is a software development company creating innovative high-performance bulk data transport technologies that provide maximum speed, complete security, and breakthrough bandwidth control at global distances. With several thousand endpoint and server licenses installed world wide, Aspera's fasp software products are becoming the industry standard for high-speed transfer of digital content in the media and entertainment marketplace and the technology of choice for large enterprise-wide organizations for Fortune 500 companies.