SOCi | San Diego | Full-Time | Onsite preferred | www.meetsoci.com
Over the past 7 years SOCi has developed an award-winning SaaS platform for franchise brands and SMB agencies that solves managing social media and reputation at scale. We are looking for the following roles in San Diego to continue to our rapid growth:
SOCi is a leading SaaS enterprise solution for large-scale social media management and one of the fastest growing technology companies in San Diego. We have recently closed an $8.5 million Series A financing to fund our rapidly growing sales and marketing efforts and to expand our cutting-edge technology development.
Winner of the San Diego Innovator of the Year (http://on.mktw.net/ZULfCc) and named a San Diego Venture Group 2014 and 2015 COOL Company, SOCi brings Big Brand social media campaign and promotion capabilities to small businesses and their service providers. SOCi, Inc. is based out of downtown San Diego.
Our SaaS platform solves social media management at scale for multi-location brands and marketing agencies who need to manage thousands of social profiles from a single location. We’re looking for a QA Engineer to help us continuously deliver quality, bug free software in a fast-paced startup environment. You will need to have a natural itch to try to find new and innovative ways to break things and test for scenarios others can’t think of. The role is highly technical – you are expected to review code, verify database states, write test automation scripts, manually verify end-to-end functionality and document reproduction steps.
Responsibilities
* Functional testing and code review of all new pull requests
* Working closely with programmers to identify problems in the code / functionality
* Working closely with client support staff to replicate client issues and write JIRA tickets
* Participate in full system testing before and after code pushes to production
* Write test automation scripts, test data generators and other useful test tools
* Have an uncompromising passion for quality and a sense of pride when a job is done right
Requirements
* Ability to read/write JavaScript, PHP and MySQL
* Solid understand of web application stack from client-side to server-side
SOCi is a new age social media management platform that is reinventing the process of managing hundreds of social media accounts in a time-efficient manner. We are looking for a QA Engineer to help us keep delivering quality, bug-free software to our users and partners while retaining our fast development process. Apply at https://soci.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=15
We are also on the lookout for Sr. Software Engineers for LAMP / BackboneJS, fulltime, remote or onsite. Contact [email protected].
Interview process is a 90 minute Skype call with a couple of coding exercises plus a meet-the-team (onsite or group call).
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People can spend a decade or more in the industry as working "programmers" and fail at writing FizzBuzz, let alone understanding basic relational theory or how a their chosen stack works. And then we try to patch it over with more tooling or new languages that are supposed to be less error-prone or somehow magically allow us to build out programming teams out of coders rather than teach them solid CS fundamentals and sound development practices.
The problem is that to someone not trained in a craft, even a beginner would appear to be able to perform that craft; only someone with deep(er) understanding of metallurgy would be able to recognize that said welder has no idea of what they're doing and is just following a set scripted actions; what's more harmful is that said beginner is lulled into believing they are actually an expert whereas they're really an Expert Beginner[2].