The Houston Chronicle (chron.kaango.com) recently launched its Kaango online marketplace and is now preparing its own local marketing program to create visibility for its marketplace. The messaging will stress that Chron’s new marketplace is fun, simple and, above all, free! Chron will use its print and online channels to communicate about the new marketplace and will include ROP, banners and ads in other Chron print publications. Houston also is preparing to launch Kaango Web2Print so advertisers can easily create online AND print advertising from one interface.
Please take a moment to read the article written by Steve Outing for ReinventingClassifieds.com.
POSITION FILLED AS OF OCTOBER 2008.
We are looking for a motivated, energetic, and multitalented Quality Software Engineer to join our team, own, define and execute software quality practices and procedures within the organization. A portion of your time will be spent defining and implementing automated testing for our legacy web applications and back-office data operations. Our goal is set to improve the quality of software releases and improve the system availability through regression and functional tests running through several environments in our multi-step release process.
The successful candidate must be able to plan, implement, and maintain test plans for our various product offerings and B2B APIs. Linux administration & scripting as it pertains to a Quality Engineering and test plan development. Build automation will also play a large role in your daily duties and the scheduled regression test plans that our application requires for quality verification. Using test recorders and other scripting resources, the candidate will be responsible for the quality of product and service that is released to our production systems.
Experience in a production environment and large volume, web-based product offerings is required. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of all technologies and services in a collaborative environment with external partners, operations staff, development engineers, and executives. The candidate will also be responsible for reporting overall system scalability, performance and availability metrics and assist in driving the business’ capacity planning through quantifiable test results.
Responsibilities:
- Design test plans for end-to-end testing on legacy systems and new features under tools such as LoadRunner, TeamQuest, etc.
- Experience on test design, automation and execution with respect to performance, scalability, stress, stability, etc.
- Review system capacity requirements and build automation test suite to improve release quality
- Define and execute build automation leveraging automated tools such as CruiseControl and unit test execution using tools such as PHPUnit, WAITn, etc.
- Design test cases, contribute in test automation and execute test cases.
- Selenium test creation; Test Recorder for UI testing and scripting automated under Selenium Remote Control for inclusion in build automation.
- Participate in capacity planning and give reports on the existing status of our applications and services; make “best practice” recommendations as they impact our test coverage and product release cycle.
Requirements:
- BA/BS: IS, CIS, CS, related technical degree; or equivalent applicable industry experience
- 2+ years of experience on system testing and/or Test automation and/or API/ XDK testing or developing software applications leveraging web server technology.
- Must have strong analytical and technical skills to understand software design & implementation and system behaviors from customer perspective.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Good exposure to testing suites such as Selenium and hardware offerings such as cloud computing.
- Knowledge of Windows and Macintosh platform web browsing clients; experience testing and troubleshooting cross-browser compatibility issues
- Familiar with software industry system test case design concepts, strategies and methodologies
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies; specifically SCRUM
Bonus:
- Definition and deployment of staged multi-part release process
- *NIX Shell Scripting
- Apache Web Server performance profiling
- PHP, .NET, Java or other web programming framework experience
- Experience working under Agile software development methodologies; specifically SCRUM.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the US. This is a direct-hire position.
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POSITION FILLED AS OF OCTOBER 2008.
We are looking for a motivated, energetic, and multitalented DBA professional to own the administration, development, backup, recovery, and tuning of database components. A portion of your time will be spent performance tuning and maintaining existing development databases, profiling, trending, troubleshooting/issue resolution, and implementing system security; as well as other operational and development DBA requirements. This position also provides support for services such as registration, billing, customer service tools, as well as supporting business initiatives such as conversion analysis, data access APIs exposed to clients and promotional programs.
The successful candidate must be able to plan, implement, and maintain DB operational services as well as develop database architectural and script based components. Linux administration & scripting as it pertains to a DBA, and database experience in open source databases such as MySQL utilizing the InnoDB engine is required.
Experience in a production environment and warehousing experience is required. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of all technologies and product offerings related to database systems in a collaborative environment with external partners, operations staff, software development engineers, and executives.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain our relational databases and assist in the data modeling, development, and implementation of policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of all company databases.
- Monitor and manage database performance tuning, capacity planning, replication, and other distributed data issues through their lifecycle and validate the technical solution meets the business requirements.
- Work directly with engineers on data modeling, logical/physical schema design, SQL query tuning and the application of data related business rules; while assisting in troubleshooting, debugging and issue resolution.
- Install and maintain database products, including patch application and upgrade to our environments, then implement those changes to our development, test, and production environments
- Create new database infrastructure components for our hosted ASP model, and write procedures and functions to automate routine maintenance tasks as appropriate
- Collaborate with Executives to design and manage all corporate metadata; execute and accounting warehouse based BI solutions and automated metrics/reports to satisfy business requirements and facilitate data sharing B2B
- Complete complex assignments requiring technical knowledge and experience to develop and implement creative solutions.
Requirements:
- BA/BS: IS, CIS, CS, related technical degree; or equivalent applicable industry experience
- 4 years minimum of Production DBA experience
- Knowledge of failover and redundancy technologies and data modeling
- Experience working in latest release versions of MySQL 5.1+ and previous experience design and maintenance of MySQL honed ETL procedures and routines
- A proven track record of leveraging data transport syntax such as XML to enable information sharing B2B and to our hosted products.
- Excellent oral and written communications skill with a high degree of initiative and the ability to work independently and follow-through on assignments
- Experience with backup and recovery solutions including planning, implementing and periodic evaluation of backup/recovery (offline/online) strategies, recovery catalog, fast recovery strategies, and interfacing with third party products and hardware
- High level of experience with schema optimization techniques, SQL level tuning, instance level tuning, storage tuning and replication based solutions, as well as solid understanding of capacity planning and traffic modeling.
- Development of stored procedures, user defined functions and other appropriate access points for our proprietary systems; definition of business rules to enforce a common level of referential integrity and application of those rules to the benefit of the service and customers.
- Linux monitoring and tuning techniques as they pertain to a DBA
Bonus:
- Knowledge of online analytical processing (OLAP) tools and data-mining software
- Expert in partitioning schemes & pruning, data cubes, custom reporting solutions, PL/SQL & T-SQL program units, PL/SQL optimization techniques, ADT & OO database object experience
- MSSQL, PostgreSQL and/or Oracle a plus; other data warehousing platforms also highly regarded
- Web scripting familiarity in PHP, .NET and/or Java a plus!
- Experience working under Agile software development methodologies; specifically SCRUM.
- 2+ years of working experience in a mission critical environment (Data Center, 365×24x7)
Candidates must be eligible to work in the US. This is a contract to hire, direct-hire position.
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