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Mint is building a free, simple, and secure personal finance web-app. Designed to be effortless, Mint consolidates your financial life in one place. Easily see how much you have, how much you owe, and where your money goes.

QA Manager

Responsibilities & Deliverables

• Help develop the short- and long-term vision for quality.
• Develop the QA hiring plan: what can be done in-house, outsourced, how many people needed and when
• Develop complete test plans and test cases, lead executation of testing effort (~50% hands-on, initially)
• Define and measure entrance/exit criteria for all releases; establish acceptance testing strategy
• Drive QA Automation: define, develop and execute QA Automation test strategies and processes (web UI and API based)
• Lead day-to-day QA processes and schedule testing resources

Experience & Requirements

Absolutely Required

• Solid understanding of QA methodology, processes, and the technical aspects of web applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Software QA, predominantly for a hosted web application (ASP)
• 2+ years of proven successful management of QA teams as either a team lead or direct manager
• Prior QA Automation experience, both hands-on and managing QA automations projects, using Quick Test Pro or similar
• Experience with Web 2.0 application QA (scalability, performance, 24/7, …)
• Knows how to leverage automation successfully to allow a small team to deliver a high-quality product

Strongly Recommended

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Effective interpersonal skills
• Proven QA experience with browser UI test automation using Windows native applications
• Proven QA experience with Java, Linux, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache environments
• Self Motivation and ability to work independently. Must have proof points of being a self starter
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and attention to reporting accuracy

Nice To Have

• Strong command of Linux; able to contrast the merits of various distributions, you can even perform basic system administration in a pinch
• Experience with issues involved in production website operations: networking, load-balancing, monitoring
• Prior early-stage startup experience

To apply, send a resume to jobs@mint.com, with the subject “QA Manager”. Your cover letter should describe why you’re awesome.

Front-End AJAX / Javascript Engineer

We are seeking a smart, experienced engineer who gets things done to join our team and specialize in building responsive and elegant web UIs with JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX and server-side Java.
The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript UIs. This is an exceptional opportunity involving substantial equity.

Responsibilities

• Help us build responsive and elegant web UIs with JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX and server-side Java
• Design, implement, deploy, and extend the infrastructure which supports our secure, scalable, and quickly evolving web application
• Depending upon the candidate’s experience and interests, we also have important and rewarding challenges in the backend and data/analytics tiers.

Experience & Requirements

Absolutely Required

• Deep Javascript / AJAX / DHTML experience, especially framework experience such as GWT, Prototype, Dojo, YUI
• Able to design, code, unit test, and debug complex, DOM-based web software applications supporting multiple browsers
• Fluent with HTML and CSS, and able to code them by hand
• Experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript
• Proficient with at least one JavaScript debugger (Venkman, FireBug, etc.)

Strongly Recommended

• 2+ years of Java experience
• Strong OO design skills, and understanding of design patterns
• Strongly familiar with at least one Java web presentation framework
• Fluent in SQL (mySQL experience preferred).
• Prior experience developing a production Internet application
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science from a competitive school

Nice To Have

• Flash experience
• Experience with issues involved in production website operations: networking, load-balancing, monitoring
• Familiarity with personal finance software applications, statistics, algorithms
• Previous startup experience

To apply, send a resume to jobs@mint.com, with the subject “Front-End Engineer”. Your cover letter should describe why you’re awesome.