Release Engineer

EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES

02-07-2010 | EXPIRA LA 08-07-2010

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RESPONSABILITATI

The Release Engineer will ensure Embarcadero product builds are automated to the fullest extent possible. Release Engineering ensures developers are able to build source into a defined binary package throughout the development cycle. Release Engineering is the focal point for work between developers, documentation, and the QA group. This position will collaborate closely with these functions to ensure Embarcadero products can be delivered on time and exceed customer expectations.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail oriented, and self-motivated. Candidate must be comfortable with a variety of operating systems and have excellent communication skills.

Our future colleague will have to:

•Automate new Embarcadero product builds to fullest extent possible.
•Ensure development issues such as build breakages are quickly escalated and resolved.
•Automate smoke tests, unit tests, and automated test for builds.
•Work with developers to pinpoint and resolve build issues.
•Extend build systems to provide better information for development and QA.
•Administer source control system; be able to branch, merge, and tag during development cycle.
•Develop and maintain custom tools that increase developer productivity.
•Interface with Engineering, Quality Assurance, and other departments as necessary to ensure final product is formally released for distribution.


CERINTE

Requirements:

•Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
•1+ year build and release experience. Candidate should have proven skills in developing and maintaining scalable build systems on a variety of operating systems.
•experience with Ant/NAnt and other scripting languages.
•experience of source control systems such as SVN/CVS/Perforce and administration of SCM systems.
•Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Cruise Control/Hudson.
•Familiarity with large-scale software product development processes including multi-platform development.
•Self motivated with excellent verbal and written skills.
•Ability to broadly understand product and company goals to design and implement improvements.

Additional Desirable Skills:

•Knowledge of bug tracking systems such as Bugzilla/JIRA.
•Comfortable with other Unix environments inclusive of AIX, HPUX, Solaris.
•Understand concepts in Software Configuration Management such as branching and tags along with best practices for efficient Software Development.
•Experience with Eclipse RCP applications and PDE build.
•Experience with other scripting languages such as Python, shell, batch.


BENEFICII OFERITE

What will we offer you:
• career opportunities
• professional and personal development trainings
• the opportunity to work with the latest technologies on the market
• competitive salaries
• central office with cafeteria, recreation room etc.
• a development process that allows everybody to participate and share ideas
• a bounded team where work becomes fun


DESCRIEREA FIRMEI

Embarcadero Technologies Romania is the Iasi-based R&D center of Embarcadero Technologies Inc. It was started in 2006 and it is now the one of the largest IT companies in Iasi, being responsible for some of the best development and database tools in the entire industry (as JBuilder, C++ Builder, RAD Studio, DBArtisan, Delphi, ER/Studio to name just few of the 16 projects we deal with in Iasi).

Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices located around the world.

Embarcadero serves more than three million users in thousands of companies and organizations worldwide. From independent software vendors, systems integrators and value added resellers to government organizations, OEMs, and IT and R&D groups within large enterprise teams, Embarcadero tools empower developers and database professionals to design things right, build them faster, optimize and run them better. Embarcadero products are used in the most demanding vertical industries in 29 countries and by more than 97% of the Global 2000 world’s biggest companies.

For more information about our company and products please visit www.embarcadero.com. If you are interested, please send us your resume or ask questions about all open job opportunities in Iasi at careers.ro[at]embarcadero.com. Only selected candidates will be contacted.