SpotX is the most transparent programmatic video advertising platform with more than 7 billion ad decisions per day reaching 600 million unique visitors in more than 190 countries. We are a fast-paced but casual environment with highly talented peers. The most successful team members are versatile, disciplined and enjoy focusing on new challenges.
Making an immediate impact:
- Work in a scrum team comprised of typically 5 to 6 developers
- Participate in daily standup meetings and all meetings of the agile SLC: planning, estimation, retrospectives, demos, etc
- Designing and executing test plans and test cases for user stories, using manual and automated testing techniques, and identifying defects
- Collaborate with the QA automation team to build further regression frameworks and test coverage
- Maintaining test environments
- Coming up with creative ideas on how to ensure the quality of the product
Needed SpotX’er talents:
- 3+ years software testing experience, which may include UI/UX and API testing
- Coding background in one of the following programming languages: PHP, Java, .NET, Python, Javascript, etc
- Worked with Relational databases / SQL
- Comfortable at a shell prompt (e.g., Unix/linux experience)
- Smart, with technical abilities that enable you to learn fast
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A proactive attitude and a love for making software better!
Bonus SpotX’er talents:
- Exposure to the video ad serving space
- Mentoring more junior colleagues to improve process and product
- ISTQB certification(s)
- Previous experience with test automation frameworks, e.g. Jasmine
- Selenium and other open source testing tools experience
- SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS
- Web-scale environments knowledge
- Understanding of source control (Subversion, GIT, etc)
- Developing personal projects, or contributing to open source projects
SpotX Perks:
- Work in a fun, casual, team environment with a great work-life balance
- Great holidays, company closed from Christmas to New Years
- Make a real difference - the code you test reaches millions of people as soon as it is released
This job comes with several perks and benefits