Akamai Exclusive Hiring Drive
Date: 05
June
, 2010
Venue: Bangalore
Time: 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Venue: Bangalore
Time: 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM
About Akamai
Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. Since its start in 1998, Akamai has grown from a research “big idea” into one of the world’s most successful technology companies, with 2008 revenue of more than $790 million, consistent profitability, and inclusion as a NASDAQ 100 company. With more than 1,600 employees in locations around the globe, Akamai is committed to innovation in technology and service. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. Akamai - Powering a Better Internet.
Responsibilities:
About the Team
The Streaming Dev QA team is responsible for the verification and qualification of Akamai’s Streaming services.
About the Job
As a Streaming Dev QA Engineer located out of our Bangalore office, you will be working with development team for validation and verification of our Media Content Delivery Service offerings which provide enterprises a robust and scalable e-business infrastructure to cost-effectively serve their global customer base. The job of Dev QA Engineer includes developing software release test plans, creating and enhancing automated tests written in Perl, executing automated and manual tests to ensure release quality, analyzing problems and getting to the root cause, and working closely with developers on a release-by-release basis in testing new features and functionalities of Streaming technologies.
Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications
Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. Since its start in 1998, Akamai has grown from a research “big idea” into one of the world’s most successful technology companies, with 2008 revenue of more than $790 million, consistent profitability, and inclusion as a NASDAQ 100 company. With more than 1,600 employees in locations around the globe, Akamai is committed to innovation in technology and service. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. Akamai - Powering a Better Internet.
Responsibilities:
About the Team
The Streaming Dev QA team is responsible for the verification and qualification of Akamai’s Streaming services.
About the Job
As a Streaming Dev QA Engineer located out of our Bangalore office, you will be working with development team for validation and verification of our Media Content Delivery Service offerings which provide enterprises a robust and scalable e-business infrastructure to cost-effectively serve their global customer base. The job of Dev QA Engineer includes developing software release test plans, creating and enhancing automated tests written in Perl, executing automated and manual tests to ensure release quality, analyzing problems and getting to the root cause, and working closely with developers on a release-by-release basis in testing new features and functionalities of Streaming technologies.
Responsibilities
- Perform manual and automated functional tests of server applications and plug-ins.
- Work closely with developers to design test criteria and strategy, develop test plans and automation.
- Develop automated tests to replicate real-world scenarios that plug into a regression test harness.
- Review bug descriptions, functional requirements, and design documents.
- Measure server performance and ensure scalability from release-to-release.
- Work in parallel on more than one QA project at a time.
Basic Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Overall Experience: 2-5 years or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 3-5 years experience in Server side QA / Test Engineering.
- Minimum 2-3 years experience in developing Perl scripts, shell scripts, and test automation.
- Good understanding of contemporary QA / test principles, methodologies, and techniques in regards to black / white box testing and test automation needed.
- Good knowledge and working experience of UNIX / Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
- Strong working knowledge of HTTP, DNS, TCP / IP required.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent problem solving / troubleshooting skills.
- Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self learning, self motivating and flexibility are some of the attributes needed for this position.
- MS / M Computer Science degree preferred.
- Familiarity with Media Content Delivery such as Real Server, QuickTime Server, Windows Media Server, Flash Media Server, and Silverlight is strongly desired.
- Domain knowledge in the area of Web server (Apache / IIS), proxy server and caching technology strongly desired.
- Experience in writing Flash action scripts is a plus.
- Experience in content creation, SWF animation is a plus.
