Position: Sr. QA “White Box” Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA

Details:
Ancestry.com is the world’s largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 13 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than one million subscribers to create nearly 16 million family trees that contain nearly 1.6 billion profiles, and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.

With employees around the world, we are committed to hiring the very best talent. We are known for our cutting-edge technology, phenomenal innovation, and we offer a compelling and rewarding workplace where you will thrive. We seek out passionate people to join our mission of helping people discover, preserve and share their family history. We invite you to explore and discover the many opportunities that await you at Ancestry.com.

Engineers working in QA are an important part of the development team and are responsible for creating test strategies, writing test plans and managing small teams that write test plans, designing automated testing systems, and implementing robust test automation. Responsibilities include reporting problems and advocating for code fixes, identifying bug patterns, and supporting sound engineering processes and practices.

Sr Software Quality Assurance Engineer  (Must have programming knowledge in .net/C# for this role)

Required Skills:
- Responsible for testing efforts on the projects
- Participates in project development and iteration planning processes
- Coordinates development and creation of test cases for QA Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Performs testing and logs results
- Provides regular status updates to Project Manager, updates iteration backlog

Required Experience:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Minimum 3 years of software development experience
- Knowledge of software development and software testing lifecycles
- Familiar with TDD paradigm and QA aspects of it
- Fluent with .NET based test automation frameworks (NUnit, VS Test, etc)
- Good coding skills in C#
- Passionate about quality and software testing
- Experience with test automation, test tool creation, automation framework is a plus
- Knowledge of the .NET Framework is preferred
- Familiarity with Agile (XP, Scrum, etc) project execution a bonus

Working for Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com is a profitable, growing company with a positive, high-energy environment. Together, our dedicated teams are harnessing the power of technology and using it to simplify the way people connect with their families and their unique legacies.  Our work environment is fast-paced and challenging, but also extremely exciting. You’ll work with a team of passionate, engaged individuals. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity.

Contact Information:
Please send your information to
herbnj AT gmail DOT com