Archive for November, 2007

Sr. Software Engineer (Quality Assurance) - OCLC, Inc.

Overview: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. We are currently seeking candidates for a Senior Software/Systems Engineer position at our Corporate Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio.

Responsibilities: - Partner with application development to design and implement automated processes for building and deploying production ready code to controlled test environments.
- Partner with other support organizations to design, document and implement automated processes and tools for staging, installing and hot-fixing production application systems.
- Collaborate with other OCLC sites to analyze, develop and implement processes and tools that support sharing of application code and test environments across the enterprise.
- Fully document processes and tools to allow less technical CMTE staff to provide configuration management and test environment support for application code.
- Provide complete configuration management support for assigned development and production systems.

Qualifications: - Prior experience using Subversion (Svn), CVS, PVCS Version Manager, Visual Source Safe or other source control tools is required.
- Previous technical experience designing and writing automated tools (scripts) to support development build, deploy, rollback and hotfix processing.
- Five to seven years of source code configuration management or software development experience required.
- UNIX, Linux, Windows, Java, Perl experience is required.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work/education experience is required.
- Strong team-oriented, interpersonal verbal and written communication skills required.
- Strongly motivated, self-driven and the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision.
To apply for this opening, please go to: http://www.oclc.org/careers/default.htm Click on Job ID # 1413

Technical Intern (Quality Assurance) - OCLC, Inc.

Overview

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. We are currently seeking candidates for a Software Developer position at our Corporate Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio.

Responsibilities
Must be detail-oriented and able to follow written instructions
Must be willing to learn
Ability to multi-task and work on different projects is very important
Need technical expertise for following written bug reports and new features descriptions
Must have good writing ability to write detailed steps to reproduce
Must have excellent computer skills
Must have excellent written communications skills
Must be punctual and work the agreed-upon hours (20 hours/week)
Adaptable, able to take on a variety of tasks

Qualifications

Must have one or more years of college with a major/minor in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or similar degree program
Must be currently enrolled in an accredited college or university pursuing a degree
Must have good written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work in small project teams with a positive can-do attitude
Demonstrated ability to effectively plan and organize projects

To apply for this opening, please go to: http://www.oclc.org/careers/default.htm and click on Job ID # 1409.