Job with Red Hat (Westford) as Fedora Test Lead

[Tim Burke]

Hi,

We have a really cool job opening here at Red Hat in the Westford, MA 
office.  Its a great mix of community interaction and driving testing.  
Here's the job description:

*Position Summary*

This position involves working closely with the external Fedora 
community as well as the internal Red Hat developers. From a community 
perspective, the position entails building up infrastructure and 
participation to triage bugs, and enable community testers to be an 
effective partner in the overall development process, through testing 
efforts. From an internal perspective, the position involves leveraging 
testing infrastructure and hardware to develop & perform tests to ensure 
the Fedora project meets release readiness criteria. Triage 
responsibilities include review of outstanding bugs to identify release 
blocking issues and to make overall release readiness assessments.

This role entails a diversity of skills, ranging from building effective 
community involvement, to hands on testing & triage, to release 
readiness judgement. It is a combination of overall project leadership 
with hands on test infrastructure and unit test development.

 *Requirements*

Requires a BSCS and 5 years of experience.

Strong professional communications skills are required as you will be 
frequently interacting external community members and internal 
developers to build up their involvement. Strong ability to develop 
testing infrastructure and unit tests is also a requirement. Your 
efforts will be highly visible to the Fedora open source development 
community at large.

Requirements include prior participation in open source projects. Proven 
history of building up community participation is a strong plus. 
Development skills are also required to be able to help diagnose 
problems, build up testing infrastructure and unit tests.

If you're interested, you can directly apply online here:
http://redhat.hrdpt.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=772