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XWiki is looking to hire a person who can both test and document our software.
As a software tester your aim will be to make sure our products reach the quality levels expected from world-class software.
As a technical writer your job will be to write the user documentation for our products and projects, both in English and in French. You'll make our users feel at home with our software by providing them with clear and detailed descriptions of how XWiki's various features work.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct hands-on testing of our products, especially in a Windows environment
- Identify bugs and issues and report them in our bug-tracking tool (JIRA)
- Work with our product manager to classify those issues and assess their severity
- Work with our project managers on reproducing bugs reported by our customers
- Work with our developers to test new and existing features when they get rolled out
- Try your hardest to make our software bend and break so that we can make it work flawlessly
- Write the XWiki Enterprise User Guide in English & French
- Write the XWiki Enterprise Administration Guide in English & French
- Write feature descriptions on XWiki.org
Requirements/Expected Skills:
- You have experience in manual testing; Automated testing is a plus
- You know or can learn how to use JIRA (or a similar bug-tracking tool)
- You're familiar with Windows and IE6 / IE7 / IE8 / Firefox / Chrome / Safari
- You can write short and detailed descriptions of how our features work
- Your oral and written English skills are excellent; French is not mandatory, but is considered a plus
- You're self-motivated: you are able to deliver without being under close supervision
- You're independent: you can work effectively from a short set of directives
Benefits:
- This position can be either part time (30 hours per week), either full time (40 hours per week)
- Working part of your time remotely is possible
- XWiki is an international company, you will work in a tight collaboration with our teams in Iasi and Paris
- You will have the opportunity to participate to the improvement and evolution of our Open Source technology and products
The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.
