Senior Software QA

Lyris Technologies and EmailLabs are successful software companies located in Emeryville and Menlo Park respectively. Founded in 1994 and 1999, both companies have been profitable for many years and are now publicly owned by Lyris, Inc.

Lyris and EmailLabs take pride in the successes we’ve attained so far.  Our products have each received significant industry recognition. As well, in 2005, EmailLabs was named to Inc.’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S. and the year before, Lyris was named one of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Bay Area by the East Bay Business Times.

We're looking for a Senior Software QA Engineer to join our team!

• Lead and coordinate the testing effort for one of our main products, define new processes as necessary
• Review, create, execute and maintain test plans and test cases for all supported applications – manual and automated
• Assist Engineering in the planning, scheduling and execution of tasks to meet milestones throughout the project lifecycle
• Provide accurate and feasible work estimates for product testing tasks
• Conduct Functional, Regression, Performance/Benchmarking, Stress/Load tests, and document defects
• Execute, maintain and expand automated test framework and test cases for current production applications
• Work with software engineers to define and implement QA and unit test plans, including dependency analysis, code coverage and use cases
• Train and mentor other QA Engineers
• Improve software quality through testing and advocacy, with a constant focus on the customer experience

• 3 Years experience implementing QA processes
• QA process knowledge – application development and defect lifecycles
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including isolating bugs in complex code
• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven – must have constant attention to detail
• Ability to think independently and take initiative to make the project succeed
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills required; must be able to represent QA to customers, both internal and external

• 2 Years experience supporting high transactional web and application server-based software preferred
•  Experience in testing applications both on Windows and Unix platforms
• Experience writing, executing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts (QTP, Silk, WinRunner, Ruby/Watir, ...)
• Working knowledge of SMTP and DNS – experience with email/messaging applications
• RDBMS Experience (MS SQL, Oracle, mysql preferred)
• Load and performance testing experience
• Experience with VMWare
• College degree or equivalent experience
• Technical degrees preferred

• Write a targeted cover letter that demonstrates you have visited our Web site and understand what we do. How would you make a positive contribution to our business?
• Please reference job# 197.0 in your cover letter and email it along with your resume to jobs-adm@lyris.com.

About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high-performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies through EmailLabs' application programming interface (API). For the fourth consecutive year, EmailLabs has been recognized by ASPnews.com as one of the Top 50 ASPs worldwide and as a Top 25 Service Provider for the Software-as-a Service (SaaS) and Business Service Provider category. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 550 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:JLHY). For more information, visit www.EmailLabs.com.