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Please send your application to kruidas@vmware.com (Christina Ruidas) and refer to the Job #24125-VM. Thank you for your interest in VMware!

Job Description Summary:

Sr. MTS position for undertaking Tools development and White box testing of JAVA and C++ based applications.

Job ID 24125-VM
Division R&D
Job Location Palo Alto (Corp)

VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. Organizations rely on VMware, its partners and its industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, VMware vSphere, to energize their business through IT, while saving energy-financial, human and the Earth’s. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide. VMware’s award-winning technology, market-leading position and culture of excellence provide our 8,200+ employees in 40+ locations worldwide with a platform for professional growth and the excitement of being an early-stage innovator.

The Ecosystem Engineering is looking for a talented and highly motivated individual to join the Infrastructure QE team. This position is for Sr. MTS to play the role of test automation lead for functional and system software level test. The candidate will have the opportunity to work closely with architect and development to build world class tools and API¡¦s that will help enhance the quality.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in architecture & design discussions within R&D community and come up with necessary tools that fit in the end-to-end automation framework.
• Experience working in Software Development life cycle. Knowledge of branching and common release management procedures.
• Should design and develop Test Automation and Code Coverage analysis tools.
• Maintain current knowledge of new methodologies, tools, and mechanisms, for test development efficiency and effectiveness.
• Contribute to decisions about test harnesses/frameworks.
• Demonstrate ability to interact well with cross functional teams as well as remote QE teams.
• Work on complex system software problems that often involve conducting primary research by running self-directed and precise experiments on multiple VMware platforms and operating systems such as Windows and Linux.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 4+ years hands-on programming experience in Java, C++.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl or Shell scripting required
• In depth experience in developing eclipse plug-ins (Eclipse, JDK).
• Experience with MySQL required.
• Experience with REST or other web APIs such as SOAP/WSDL required.
• Experience in data models and query languages.
• Experience in testing (methodologies and process) of Linux-based systems.
• Code inspections/code review experience.
• Ability to design and develop and maintain the testing tools using J-Unit and J-System.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Scrum or agile development experience as desirable
• Strong software development and system design skills
• Good Team player.
• Self-starter and highly motivated individual. Should be able to operate with minimal direction.

About VMware: VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With annual 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while saving energy-financial, human and the Earth’s. Our award-winning technology, market-leading position and culture of excellence provide our 9,000+ employees in 40+ locations worldwide with a platform for professional growth and the excitement of being an early-stage innovator.