QA Engineer for an Extremely Hot Startup
The Company
CPM Advisors (CPMa) is a technology company that manages, optimizes and enhances advertising campaigns for online advertisers. We help advertisers buy media efficiently - we simplify and streamline the process of running campaigns online and provide easy access for advertisers to thousands of websites and ad networks, general interest and niche alike. Our proprietary optimization algorithms and statistical models along with our in-depth knowledge of publisher inventory sources and pricing ensure that our advertisers achieve the best performance possible.
The Job
This is a great opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies and build out industry leading applications. Our system is used by millions of users and companies. Be of all is the opportunity to be rewarded for your hard work and ingenuity!!
Responsibilities:
• Test out dynamic, high-volume websites/application with extremely large datasets.
• Design, document, and exercise test cases in a fast pace, rapidly changing environment.
• Conduct integration, regression, ad-hoc, and edge-case testing as part of our rapid release cycles.
• Work closely with teams in both production and development with demands for quality.
• Perform daily data spot check to ensure data quality
• Be able to wear many hats since this is a start up and you will have broad exposures and opportunities.
The Qualifications
• Strong understanding of QA methodology and the Software Development Life-cycle
• Have good database experience and skills.
• Wide knowledge of browsers and testing on various platforms
• Highly self motivated, innovative, and proactive.
• Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and eager to learn new technologies as the need arises.
• Good communicator and be able to work with team.
• Desire to succeed and be extremely hard working, after all, this is a startup.
• Experience with open source technologies and have a track record of utilizing them on past projects.
• Have an MS in computer science or other technical skills.
• Have some years of experiences to prove that you can do the job.
Good to Have
• Experience in testing out high traffic and high volume applications
• Worked with data validation testing.
• Have really strong SQL skills for backend data verification.
• Knowledge or hands on experiences with Unix, MySQL, and Selenium, or anything similar.
• And working experience in a clustered production environment is a big plus.
• Be good with numbers. You might be working with analytic data a lot.
The Perks
• Good salary/stock and bonus compensation.
• Medical and other benefits
• Work with some of the smartest engineers

