Yesterday marked my two-month anniversary with Mozilla,
and as I never officially announced the start of my employment there
(at least not via my blog), I figured it was time to write a post about it.
I realize that this may be news to some readers of this blog, so I’ll start with a bit of background. I have been a
Mozillian for quite some time, actively contributing to projects primarily for the
Web QA department, but also doing a bit for
Automation. I have been heavily involved in open source development
for several years, and the goal of providing users with more choice through open source software is one that is near and dear to my
heart, so taking a job with Mozilla made perfect sense. I am glad to say that it has been everything that I had hoped it would be,
and more.
I am now a member of the stupendous Web QA team.
We are responsible for
ensuring the quality of Mozilla’s many web sites, which include mozilla.org, Mozilla Support,
Firefox Add-ons, The Mozilla
Developer Network,
Firefox Marketplace, and many others. We have also recently been testing
Firefox OS, Mozilla’s exciting new mobile operating system. My main
focus is writing automated tests using Python and Selenium,
and more recently Marionette (for Firefox OS), but I have
also been using Javascript quite a bit (as that is the basis for Firefox OS).
In addition to that I spend quite a bit of time with Jenkins, which we use for Continuous Integration, and more recently
I helped to build an IRC bot using node.js and MongoDB. I plan to write a separate post about that in the near future.
As I mentioned above, it’s been a great experience thus far – something I can recommend to anyone. If you’re interested in
finding out what it’s like to be a Mozilla contributor, and having a chance to learn new or improve upon
existing skills in testing, Python, Selenium and/or Git, you should check us out.
You can find me and my Web QA colleagues in #mozwebqa on irc.mozilla.org, which is really the ideal place to get started.
We also have a mailing list that you can join, and you can
always find more information about who we are and what we do via our QMO Page.
I hope to see some of you online soon!