Demo Request

Software Quality Assurance

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 Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team!

Job Responsibilities:

Create, review, execute and maintain test plans and test cases
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
Improve software quality through testing and advocacy, with a constant focus on the customer experience

Required Skills and Experience:

Experience in testing applications on Windows and/or Unix platforms
2 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

Desired Skills and Experience:

2 Years experience supporting high transactional web and application server-based software preferred
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

Compensation: Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits

Timeframe: Immediate start for a full-time, permanent position

How to apply:

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# 110 in your cover letter and email it along with your resume to jobs-adm@lyris.com.

AA/EOE

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.