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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b>Great company. Unique challenges. Excellent growth opportunity. Resume builder. Good money!<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Do you consider yourself hands on QA Manager? Do you have a technical side to you that dive deep to lead a modern QA team to the latest advancements in test automation and white box testing? Are you up for the challenge of working closely with development, release management and project management to enable updates to production every two weeks? If these things excite you, then we would like to talk to you about our opportunity! <br><br>The QA Manager is senior position that will be responsible for leading the Online Buddies QA team in day-to-day quality assurance and quality control of our market leading social network applications. This would include high volume, high availability websites and multi-platform (native Android, iPhone and mobile browser) mobile companion applications. <br><br>The role will report to the CTO and be responsible for managing and leading a small team of QA and test automation engineers. The successful candidate will be someone that has current experience in modern QA practices – not just ‘old-school’ test plan development and black box testing. The ideal candidate would have experience in testing applications for high volume, high availability commercial websites. <br><br>Must be able to lead the team in efficient day-to-day operation and support, as well as drive ongoing quarterly QA testing improvement initiatives. These would include such things as regular advancement of automated test coverage, development of team members for white box/direct database testing among other projects. <br><br>Will need to work collaboratively with Product Management, Product Development, Systems Engineering and Project Managers as part of regular testing cycles associated with our Agile development and release process. <br><br><b>RESPONSIBILITIES:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Work under the high level direction of the CTO to own the assessment of the overall quality, stability and performance of the Online Buddies application suite (Manhunt website and mobile applications). <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lead the team in the execution and overall product quality (functional, performance and stability) as well as quality elements of code migration/deployments and delivery. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lead the team in the development and optimization of test strategies (particularly for mobile applications), test plans, test cases, test automation from QA through production deployment phases. Focus test automation on continual functional test suite development (Selenium) and performance baseline testing (via Loadrunner). <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Provide oversight and leadership of all QA long-term improvement initiatives as it relates to continuous improvement of testing coverage and quality control process. This also includes managing and driving quality control for code deployment across different environments, from Development, QA, Staging and Production environments. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Participate in sprint planning with Project and Product Management and Development to appropriate size sprint backlog work items. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Serve as the main perfective to offer the Project manager and CTO a viewpoint of overall risk levels associated with any release candidate. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and follow through on any risk mitigation strategies. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lead, mentor and develop engineers in the QA team. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Be available on rare occasions off hours (nights/weekends) in support of any production P1 resolution process. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>EDUCATION AND TRAINING:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>BS or BA degree required, MS a plus in computer science or related technical field or business (MBA). <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>GENERAL TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>10 years + of experience in quality assurance or quality control discipline. Desired experience working in an e-Commerce and/or social networking web sites. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Have broad operation data center operations background combined with quality, continuous improvement, high scale/high availability<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Have a hands-on working knowledge of common QA best practices for functional, scalable and performance based factors and latest quality control and test automation practices. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Must display a solid track record or leading technical teams in support of quality initiatives. Looking for proven experience to serve as “player-coach” to lead and develop technical teams to higher levels of performance. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Experience with web based applications – with technology experience with LAMP stack as well as Java based applications. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Be familiar with Agile development process and rapid (2 week) release cycles. Ability to be flexible and adapt to any given situation <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills. Must have strong analytical and data driven problem-solving skills <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Have previous management experience to lead, mentor and develop technical team members. Be able to build solid team performance through sound people leadership skills. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Basic understanding of the principles and best practices of software development process and software quality principals. Strong benefit to have experience with Agile based development. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ability to work under pressure and in high stress situations with a calm demeanor<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends in support of deployments or in support of on-call escalations of production issues. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>To learn more about the company or to apply online, visit http://www.online-buddies.com.<br><br>No phone inquiries please!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#EE3F23'>__________________________<br></span><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Don Harpin<br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'>Director, Human Resources<br>Online Buddies, Inc.<br><a href="http://www.online-buddies.com"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.online-buddies.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:blue'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'><br>Main: 617-225-2727<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'>Direct: 617-674-8949<br>Mobile: 617-823-4240<br>Direct Fax: 617-674-8881<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5E5F'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This transmission contains confidential and/or legally privileged information from Online Buddies, Inc. or affiliated entities intended only for the use of the individual(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this information or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>