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Job Title	Senior QA Engineer - Second Life
Job Category	Quality Assurance
Job Description	Second Life – Where Worlds are Born. Second Life is a 3D virtual world entirely created by its Residents (people like you) that's bursting with entertainment, experiences, and opportunity. The company behind it, Linden Lab, was founded in 1999 to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience. The Second Life Grid provides the platform where Second Life resides and offers the tools for business, educators, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to develop a virtual presence. Headquartered in San Francisco, Linden Lab has over 200 employees spread across the globe and they are now growing their European Studio based in Brighton, UK. Overview: Linden Lab has an immediate need for a talented Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer / Automation Engineer. If you like to break stuff and understand why it broke, enjoy taking a vague description of a bug and defining as well as reproducing the problem, are passionate about improving the Second Life experience, as well as smart, creative and energetic, then you might be a Linden! Responsibilities: - Develop and deploy unit test frameworks in C++, Perl. - Refactor unit test cases into existing code bases. - Develop performance and testing tools for MySQL. - Identify software defects, run test suites, and verify fixes. - Enter and update bugs in defect tracking system (Jira). - Write test cases, scripts and suites. - Develop tools to enable Second Life to test itself. Qualifications: - 5+ years as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer with Software Development or Software Developer in Test experience. - Expert knowledge of software development processes. - Testing experience with online client/server products or live online games. - White box testing experience. - Experience using automated test tools such as but not limited to LoadRunner or WinRunner. - Excellent oral and written communication skills. - Ability to successfully interface cross-functionally with a wide range of personnel. - Bachelors Degree in Computer Science strongly preferred. - Knowledge of Second Life and Second Life's scripting language a plus. Apply: This job is being exclusively managed by our retained recruitment partner Day One Search. Therefore, if you feel you are a good fit for the role, please send your CV to secondlife@dayonesearch.com for immediate consideration. For any enquires please call us on 01273 863622. Your application will be treated as confidential.
Location	UK & Europe, England, South East, Brighton
Salary	£20k-£30k
Date posted	06/05/2008
Recruiter	This job is advertised on behalf of Second Life using their internal reference LL/SnrQAEng001.