[Buildbot-devel] FYI: job ad: QA contractor position in Apple's compiler team

[Daniel Dunbar]

Hi all,

I hope this cross-posting is ok, our team at Apple is looking for a
contractor for a QA position. I would strongly prefer to find someone
who has substantial experience with buildbot, so this seemed like a
good place to post. The full description is below.

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Apple's LLVM compiler team is looking to fill a 6 month QA contractor
position to help drive major improvements to our qualification and
testing processes for Clang.

Currently we have a semi-automated process for tracking compiler
correctness, performance of the compiler, and performance of the
generated code.  We are looking for someone who will help drive major
enhancements to the automation of our testing (in all three mentioned
areas), isolate and file compiler bugs found by the automation, design
new tests and methodology, and make it scale to testing larger
scenarios.

We have a strong preference for automating manual tasks, but there are
still manual tests that are currently run, and much of the isolation
is still manual.  The candidate will be in charge of handling these
tasks and automating them where possible.

Skills:

- Significant UNIX experience required; Mac OS X experience preferred
- Python programming experience required
- Proven testing and bug reporting skills (and familiar with bug
management tools)
- Basic understanding of C/C++ compilers, how they work and how they are used
- C++ programming language experience a significant plus
- Familiarity with buildbot and similar automated testing tools
- Familiarity with Python programming for (basic) web interfaces a plus
- Familiarity with building AJAX web interfaces a plus
- Familiarity with basic statistics a plus
- Familiarity with open source is desired, and experience with the
open source LLVM project is a major plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly with
communicating technical issues to others

Job responsibilities would include:

- Extending current automated testing ("buildbot") to include
additional projects and test suites to qualify the compiler
- Reduce compiler failures found during testing and file appropriate bug reports
- Audit load distribution of our testing machines, and requisition new
resources where needed
- Automate release candidate qualification, including generating
"seed" builds of compiler for internal testing
- Semi-automate the tagging of bug reports incorporated into a given
compiler release
- Improve testing infrastructure to include comprehensive performance
and correctness monitoring (via a web interface)

If you are interested in the position, please email your resume to Ted
Kremenek (kremenek at apple.com).
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Cheers,
 - Daniel