“A” automates the assembly, provisioning, deployment, and management of composite applications into the cloud environment.
The qualified Senior Software Engineer will be designing and implementing a framework to automate the functional and regression tests for the “A” grid operating system. This framework will interpret and execute well-defined test cases, compare actual results against test oracles, and report reliable test results. The automated tests will verify in parallel the functionality of AppLogic’s command-line interpreter, Web Services API, network services, and distributed file system. The framework will also automate the test cases for other “A” features and functions including the installation, upgrade and reconfiguration of grids.
Required Skills and Experience
• Strong scripting skills in Bash and Perl
• Strong programming skills in C, C++, or Java
• Rapid researching, prototyping, and debugging skills is a must
• Linux utilities knowledge is a must; Windows basics is a plus
• Web development experience using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, GWT, GXT is highly desirable (Liferay portals, RoR, and Node.js is a plus)
• Basic networking knowledge is a plus (MAC and IP addressing, DNS, DHCP, Gateway, VLAN)
• Database design and implementation experience is a plus (MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL, MongoDB)
• Prior experience or willingness to design and implement frameworks for automated testing is a plus
• Cloud experience is a plus (“A”, Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, Rackspace)
• Virtualization experience is a plus (Xen, VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server)
• Must possess effective verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent college degree is highly desirable