QA Architect

Kickfire is an innovative company that has taken a dramatically different approach to achieving fast database query performance, developing the first easy-to-use and affordable high-performance database appliance for the MySQL market. Our company offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on a breakthrough technology alongside a proven management team and some of the most talented engineers in the systems and database fields.

The co-founders are serial entrepreneurs who jointly hold over 4 dozen patents. Kickfire is backed by several Tier-1 Silicon Valley venture firms; Mayfield, Accel Partners, Greylock and Pinnacle. Our people are brilliant thinkers with a passion for driving truly dramatic cost- performance benefits in the database query market with a disruptive business model that is causing a buzz in the industry.

Summary:

In this position, you must have in-depth knowledge of a variety of testing techniques and methodologies with proven ability to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the quality and development teams.

As a hands on contributor, the QA Architect will be required to "lead by example" while guiding small teams of QA engineers in testing and infrastructure projects.

The QA architect is expected to consistently look beyond the current release with the goal being long-term improvement of the QA processes and capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and refine QA infrastructure to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness
• Set QA strategic direction and priorities in the testing of new development features.
• Provide feedback to development team to enhance the testability of existing and new features.
• Prepare and drive strategies for specific testing challenges such as high concurrency, large scale databases, and end-to-end traceability.
• Design, review, approve, and implement testing strategies across QA organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related discipline; Master's Degree or global equivalent a plus
• Typically 7 or more years of experience in software quality assurance testing, with experience in software design and development a plus. Exposure to many different products and QA methodologies will be extremely valuable.
• Hands-on experience and strong technical background on databases, test automation and performance testing.
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Linux/MySQL expertise is a huge advantage
• Datawarehousing knowledge desirable
• Strong business awareness
• Hands on knowledge with common software development and scripting languages/tools.

At Kickfire, you will enjoy a competitive salary, stock options, excellent health, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance coverage, a 401k plan and more.

We are looking for exceptionally talented and highly motivated individuals who want to make their mark at a company that's on the fast track. If you have what it takes to excel, we encourage you to send us a resume with a few words explaining why you'd be a great fit. Please send your resumes to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and indicate "QA Architect" in subject line.