Are you the type of person who:
Is an incredible, proven lead QA Engineer, with an aptitude for setting up QA processes and building a team from the ground up? Then this is your place to shine!

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a talented, responsible, lead QA engineer who is passionate about product quality
• Loves QA methodology, best practices and test-driven development
• Is enough of a developer in multiple languages/platforms to be dangerous (or at least to test our products well)
• Thrives in an environment with lots of change, who is excited to learn and likes to test their mettle
• Can multi-task and “own” the QA process for all three of Aptana’s product suite
• Excels at picking up new languages and technologies as the Aptana product suite expands even further

The Opportunity:

• Work as the lead QA engineer at a company that already has traction in the market and (effectively) thousands of volunteer testers
• Establish process and best practices with the in-house support and resources to "do it right"
• Promote an environment where the entire team creates reliable, bug-free code - the first time around
• Help build a small, top-notch QA team and establish and refine QA best practices
• Collaborate with a team of productive, smart, energetic, passionate engineers

Responsibilities:

• Test multiple products on multiple operating systems and their integration
• Work directly with developers to author test cases
• Establish a rapport with our engineering team and create a QA process that they buy into and support
• Identify, report and track issues in a bug tracking system
• Perform manual testing as required
• Evaluate, select and integrate third party testing tools
• Author code to automate written test cases to aid in regression testing
• Realistically manage the tradeoffs between quality control and the need to ship product to hungry customers
• Find new ways to leverage our numerous users to identify bugs and improve product quality

Qualifications:

• Previous experience building a QA discipline at a startup from the ground up
• Strong work ethic
• Superlative analytical skills
• Take pride in your work
• Coding/testing experience with most of the following: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, Python and various web technologies

Nice to have:

• Previous experience building a QA discipline at a startup from the ground up

Please submit resumes to kathy@aptana.com. Thanks!