Job Title: QA Engineer
Function: Engineering
Department: Engineering
Location: San Franciso, CA
QA Engineer
Description
Quantcast needs QA engineers to help us develop
cleanly designed and coded web-based applications and intuitive,
user-friendly websites. We want a MacGyver that will be able to spot
bugs and fix them as he/she goes. It is essential that the candidate be
familiar and up to date with Java as we are a small development team
and rely on our QA people to redesign and fix bugs and resolve code
issues during the QA phase.
Requirements
* BS or MS in Computer Science
* 1 to 3 years of recent Java development experience (candidiates will need to pass a java coding test)
* Familiarity with Unix programming environment
* Working knowledge of JAVA, JSP, JMS, Spring, Hibernate and XML
* Knowledge of any of Perl or Python
* Experience with Javascript, CSS and XHTML a plus
* Experience with automated toolsets a plus
Responsibilities
* Testing and debugging of Quantcast's web-apps and sites and develop test plans for team products
* Show a commitment to craftsmanship and a desire to create best-in-class web-based applications
* Run automated testing toolsets
* Launch and deployment engineering of new tools and applications
The ideal candidate for this role will be enthusiastic about a start-up
environment. They will be entrepreneurial, adventurous, and creative.
We are looking for someone that is interested in taking on this role
and redefining it as the company and team evolves.
Who are we?
Quantcast is a new media measurement service that
enables advertisers to view audience reports for millions of sites and
services to build their brands with confidence. The free service
empowers publishers to demonstrate the unique value of their audiences
by tagging their websites, videos, widgets and games for direct
measurement.
Quantcast Corporation was founded in 2005 by a team of engineers and
mathematicians committed to advancing the digital media industry. The
Quantcast team has conducted extensive research and development to
provide publishers with a free and easy way to report on the audience
metrics that advertisers demand, including traffic, demographics and
lifestyle assessments.
To Apply: http://www.opv.com/pio/register.jsp?site=quantcast&jobId=a0a40000000c3wj
Or visit: http://www.opv.com/pio/allJobs.jsp?site=quantcast
Statistician, Quantcast, San Franciso, CA
Job Title: Statistician
Function: Engineering
Department: Engineering
Location: San Franciso, CA
Duties:
Design and develop analytical techniques for
petabyte scale data. Research and design novel algorithms for
collecting, organizing, interpreting and summarizing data for
identification and targeting of online media audience characteristics
and advertising opportunities. Provide novel statistical and machine
learning solutions to business-driven data problems. Conduct all
aspects of statistical and related research, including project planning
and management, data extraction and filtering, algorithm design,
implementation and assessment from research to production. Extract and
manipulate data, implement and apply statistical algorithms using Java
in a large-scale parallel computing framework. Use statistical software
to invent new algorithms and models, and to generate test cases for
production code. Clearly communicate research results and algorithm
details to non-statisticians in verbal and written format. Provide key
input during group project meetings to ensure that data handling and
coding will support the planned statistical analysis. Coordinate with
and manage junior software engineers to enable transition of
research-oriented code into production. Devise and implement data
quality control tests to catch potential issues in production
pipelines. Review and revise software as necessary to ensure the
integrity of statistical analyses. Participate in Scientific
Advisory Board meetings and other scientific conventions to interact
with the scientific community, keep abreast of current statistical and
machine learning research and to enable recruitment.
Minimum Requirements:
-Master’s degree in Statistics or Mathematics
and 1 year of progressive experience as Statistician with software
development company
-Qualifying experience to include internet technologies, use of
terabyte datasets, software programming using statistical software
R/S-Plus.
-Knowledge of Java and statistical and machine learning methods and tools.
-Experience in exploratory data analysis and in statistical and data mining processes.
-Must also possess the ability to explain statistical concepts to non-statisticians.
The ideal candidate for this role will be
enthusiastic about a start-up environment. They will be
entrepreneurial, adventurous, and creative. We are looking for someone
that is interested in taking on this role and redefining it as the
company and team evolves.
Who are we?
Quantcast is a new media measurement service that
enables advertisers to view audience reports for millions of sites and
services to build their brands with confidence. The free service
empowers publishers to demonstrate the unique value of their audiences
by tagging their websites, videos, widgets and games for direct
measurement.
Quantcast Corporation was founded in 2005 by a team of engineers and mathematicians committed to advancing the
digital media industry. The Quantcast team has conducted extensive
research and development to provide publishers with a free and easy way
to report on the audience metrics that advertisers demand, including
traffic, demographics and lifestyle assessments.
To Apply: http://www.opv.com/pio/register.jsp?site=quantcast&jobId=a0a40000000c3wj
Or visit: http://www.opv.com/pio/allJobs.jsp?site=quantcast
