QA Engineer Extraordinaire
Location: Palo Alto, CA
EchoSign is seeking a brilliant quality assurance engineer to join our team and help build kick-ass web applications. We�re a growing, venture-backed web 2.0 startup with real revenue and an impressive customer list (British Telecom, GE, PayPal, LinkedIn, Qualcomm, Honeywell, and hundreds of others). We are looking for someone smart, passionate and productive who can focus on ensuring product quality and help us keep customers happy. This is a chance to join a well-funded company with a successful product that�s still small enough for you to make a huge difference.
About you:
We're looking for someone who has a natural talent for finding bugs. A strong focus on quality and a willingness to learn quickly are more important than specific prior experience with testing tools or frameworks. This is a perfect opportunity for someone to grow into a test automation / white box testing role.
Required experience:
- 2+ years experience testing real-world web applications
- Must have prior experience writing, maintaining, and running manual test plans
- Receiving, analyzing, and responding to a variety of customer bug reports
- Familiarity with databases/SQL in the context of test execution and diagnostics is preferred
- Working knowledge of at least one scripting/programming language is a plus
About the job:
You�ll be working with a close-knit group of developers using the latest technologies to build new products and features, work with customers and partners, and continue to evolve our service and make users happy. Our customers depend on us for critical business processes, so consistent service quality and performance are incredibly important to us.
Key responsibilities:
- Author, maintain, and execute test plans that provide comprehensive coverage of EchoSign's products
- User appropriate tools and testing frameworks to develop automated tests where appropriate
- Participate in risk analysis and determine the appropriate level of testing for various scenarios
- Respond to customer problem reports and drive issues to a successful resolution
- Record and maintain issues in our knowledgebase and bug tracking system
About EchoSign:
EchoSign (www.echosign.com) automates getting contracts signed, tracked and filed in one click. We are an Office 2.0 leader that's won numerous awards (including "Top 100 private companies in North America" from Red Herring) and have been written up in Business Week, Forbes, TechCrunch, Information Week, any many more. We have over 3,000,000 users and 35,000 paying customers who love us for making their lives easier � you can read some glowing reviews.
If you are interested in working at a fast-paced, cutting edge company and enjoy collaborating with bright and talented colleagues, then come join the EchoSign team. In exchange, you get a nice salary, comprehensive benefits, a generous equity package, and of course all the soda you can drink. EchoSign is located in downtown Palo Alto, a block away from the CalTrain station (30-something minutes by bullet train from SF), and across the alley from the Gordon Biersch brewery. Our office used to be a Cadillac dealership, so it�s a pretty classy place.
To apply, please send your resume to qa@apply.echosign.com. We really hate impersonal emails, so make yourself stand out by answering two questions: What�s the coolest thing you�ve built recently, and what�s one thing you think can be improved in the EchoSign product or web site?