Test Lead to Meltwater in Gothenburg

Meltwater helps businesses drive growth and build brands. Meltwater's online intelligence platform analyzes billions of digital documents daily to extract precise, timely business insights that help more than 20,000 companies understand their markets, engage their customers, and master the new social business environment. With offices in 27 countries, Meltwater is dedicated to personal, global service built on local expertise.

The project

We are building the next generation of our data and search backend. This will crawl and index 100M+ news articles, social media and blog posts daily - and deliver results near real-time to our customers. The development teams implementing this backend are located in Gothenburg with a satellite development team in San Francisco.

The position

To help achieving this, we need a test lead to build up and run a newly formed test and integration team. The team will be working co-located with the largest development team in Gothenburg and be responsible for system tests such as integration and stress tests and create an environment and procedures for continuous integration and test. You will also take part in the release management team and be responsible for delivering insights that can help us determining the production-readiness of the platform. The test team will initially consist of three test engineers in addition to the test lead.

The team

Software engineering at its best, obviously using agile methodologies and state-of-the-art technology. We are all extremely passionate and aim to be the best dev. - and test teams in the world.

Profile

Background:

. 4+ years of experience of testing server-based software stacks

. experienced in building up efficient communication with stakeholders

. well-versed in testing and automation tools and scripting languages such as python, ruby and puppet

. knows Linux very well

. good at Java profiling

. experience with distributed database systems and distributed search technologies

. familiar with CI strategies and tools

. creative in finding the right KPIs, as well as reporting them

. have lead a small team before

. experience in working tightly with development teams and contributing to the development processes

. excellent verbal and written English communication skills



Application

In this recruitment Meltwater cooperate with Dfind IT. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience, as interviews will be held continuously. www.dfind.se/it. For further information regarding the process please contact Recruitment Consultant Susanne Hjälmered at +46 (0) 73-357 36 39, susanne.hjalmered@dfind.se .

Ort: Göteborg

Uppdragsgivare: Meltwater