[TriLUG] Interesting QA job description, now with Extra Real World Flavor!

[Brian Henning]

"... Think you're a good fit?  Submit your resume today!  Starting 
salary $30k - $30.001k, depending on experience."*

(* I'm making this up, of course.)



Jon Carnes wrote:
> http://itiva.com/jobs/qaspecialist.html
> 
> The candidate must be versatile, knowledgeable, proactive and
> productive. But this isn’t enough; we want the best. If you want to
> stand out:
> 
>       * You should be smarter, faster and more knowledgeable than all
>         your QA friends. 
>       * You should be able to name the top 3 applications used for
>         source control, task-tracking, automated testing, unit testing,
>         continuous integration, code metrics, etc. - and then defend
>         your choices. 
>       * You should grok the Net. Big time. 
>       * Linux should make you smile warmly. Alternately, it should make
>         you display the smug smirk of superiority. 
>       * Your penchant for detail and precision will border on the
>         obsessive. You should have perspired uncontrollably when 64 bit
>         processors became available. 
>       * You prefer to test features in the most impossibly unreasonable
>         manner. If the developers test with the mouse and keyboard then
>         you will use a joystick, microphone and serial port. 
>       * The idea of working with a team of developers to create
>         cutting-edge Internet software should make you unapologetically
>         giddy. 
>       * Your desire to be the best at what you do should be second only
>         to your desire to breathe. 
>       * Programming and scripting tasks should not give you tumors. 
>       * A quality focus should run in your family. Your Great Uncle
>         Noughflote should have been one of the naysayers at the launch
>         of the Titanic. 
>       * You should be perpetually learning new things because ignorance
>         gives you indigestion. 
>       * You should be able to defend why Linux is better than Windows.
>         And vice-versa. 
> You don't have to satisfy all of the above but you should be close. If
> you don't have a Great Uncle Noughflote then you should at least want
> one.
> 
> 

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