Music duel from "Train de vie"

This music duel is from the movie "Train de vie". I love both Jewish klezmer and -of course- Gypsy music.

Looking for a QA Team Lead

I am looking for a QA Team Leader for my former company. Visa Sponsorship is possible for strong candidates. Please find the JD below:

Quality Assurance Team Leader

The Challenge

We are seeking a hands-on, experienced individual to lead planning and implementation of manual and automated QA testing for the Verum ASD:Suite of development tools. Along with product testing responsibility, you will help coordinate the testing efforts of others and expand automated product testing. This is a Scrum/Agile environment with a team committed to “first time right” implementation. The ideal candidate will have experience working with Agile teams and previous success with implementing automated testing for client-server applications.

Responsibilities
• Analyze complex requirements and create/execute test plans and test cases
• Work with the development team on estimating, assigning and monitoring the progress of tasks, evaluating status, risk, and priorities
• Coordinate all release test planning and testing efforts of the Verum testing team
• Perform manual testing and extend the test automation efforts for Verum development tools. This may include automated unit test scripting as well as automated routines to test specific features or stress testing.
• Evaluate, select and implement various open source or commercial tools for use within the test environment
• Mentor new and/or junior level QA employees.

Qualifications
• 5+ years of hands-on testing experience including test planning, estimation, test case creation, test execution
•Proficient in the software development life cycle using Agile development methods
• Experience with automated testing tools including scripting tools
• Strong leadership skills with a proven track record for leading the test efforts on products with complex product features
• Customer-focused, ability to triage issues, react well to changes and work with teams
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
• Very good knowledge of English
• C# and C++ programming experience is a plus
• Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Work with documentation staff to re-design and produce customer oriented electronic and printed product documentation.
• Build and maintain a QA test lab where test equipment can be pooled among the various QA testing efforts.
• Help perform manual or automated testing as needed.

Timepass Na?

Free as a bird

Are you aware of how important is Project Gutenberg? Classics have no borders now. They are all free. My dad told me once that he had to save his weekly allowance to buy a Balzac. Now you can have a computer for 100 bucks and read 30,000 books for free. This is a dream for my dad's generation. So, lets appreciate the value of it. Children in Africa can read Indian, African, European and Chinese classics for free. And we all owe this to free software, GPL and DRM opponents.

So praise it!

Twitter Account

Have we mentioned yet that we have a twitter account and it goes as "HandToNose"?

Great Debates

This is a compilation of debates conducted by the Astrobiology Magazine. Good Stuff.

Pleiades (Messier 45)

Today, we took our first photo in Astrophotograpy with our new telescope. We took the picture of Pleiades a.k.a. Messier Object 45.

Pleiades is consist of 7 blue stars (seven sisters) which are very young. You can clearly see the seven sisters in the picture we took.

Our photo is in a very amateur shape, as it can be seen. We used our 4.5 inch Newtonian telescope with 500 mm focal lenght and simply put our Camera (EOS 350D) to the eyepiece.