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Senior QA Engineer for Major League Baseball's Mobile Websites!
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For the QA Engineer with expertise in design and development of test cases and functional validation of mobile websites, this role at Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) offers your opportunity to join our team as we move into the latest and most exciting part of our evolution to date. Mobile applications are the hottest things on the web, and it's no different here, where they are dominating an ever-growing portion of our company's revenue stream. Drawing from an abundance of corporate support, you will be part of the collaborative team that tests the mobile websites developed and supported by MLBAM that are available to users all over the world. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for you to to take part in defining our next frontier! If you are eager to take your quality assurance career to the next level, step up to the bigs and join Major League Baseball Advanced Media as our Senior Mobile Quality Assurance Engineer!

MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is the Internet and interactive media arm of Major League Baseball (MLB) and operates the league's Web site, MLB.com. The site, which draws an audience of more than four million people each day, offers news, schedules, standings, and statistics from around the league as well as information on each of MLB's 30 teams. The site also provides live audio and video game broadcasts for subscribers. In addition to subscription fees, MLBAM generates revenue through advertising and sponsorships, along with ticket sales through its Tickets.com subsidiary. The baseball league created MLBAM in 2000 through a unanimous vote of all 30 teams.

As opposed to a job testing the latest in a long line of accounting software packages, as our Senior Mobile QA Engineer based in our New York City office in Chelsea Market, your main mission will be to test our latest mobile websites, containing games, player stats features, live media apps, and other "must haves" for the modern baseball fanatic. The fundamental aspects of your experience such as the review of QA requirements, documentation of findings, creation of test cases and the performing of systems integration testing will serve as a sound foundation for success in this role. And your experience testing applications for the iPhone, Palm, WebOS, J2ME, Blackberry, or Androidwill be crucial for understanding how the web works on mobile devices. We have developed our own testing framework on Watir, however it will be helpful that you have experience with other structured testing methodologies and tools such as Selenium and SilkTest. Strong business communication skills will be necessary as you interact with members of our development team, marketing, and some management level stakeholders to review specifications, capacity and fault tolerances, research issues and work with engineers to ensure uptime for game time. Unleash your unabashed enthusiasm for pushing the limits of this burgeoning technology and join the team that is bringing the American Pastime to millions in a whole new way!


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