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Testing regularly scheduled releases of both the Xfire Client and Website

Learn and become familiar with our website, product, features and functions

Identify, troubleshoot and document inconsistencies and functionality issues (bugs) found within the Xfire Client and Website

Work with the Xfire Customer Support team to track and research reports from users

Develop and execute test plans and testing procedures

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Excellent written and spoken English

Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

2+ years of QA or Tech Support for Video Game and/or Windows applications

Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office Applications

Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines

Sharp attention to detail

Aptitude to learn quickly and effectively

Self motivated with a superb work ethic

Strong knowledge of PC hardware and software installation and configuration a plus

Test lead experience a plus

Knowledge of HTML a plus

<]]> Menlo Park CA US Please email jobs@xfire.com with Quality Assurance Tester - Job Code 012 as the title of your email. Xfire, Inc. is the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world. Xfire helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also a server browser, IM, and file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has 4 million members in more than 100 countries. Xfire is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NEA, and Granite Global Ventures. Xfire is supported by advertisers and marketers trying to reach the 18-34 male audience.
ABOUT MTV NETWORKS
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 100 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these brands are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 90 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
ABOUT VIACOM
Viacom is one of the leading global entertainment content companies, with prominent and respected brands in focused demographics. Offering programming and content for television, motion pictures and digital platforms, Viacom's world-class brands include MTV Networks (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, Spike TV, TV Land, Logo and more than 100 networks around the world), BET, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG and Famous Music. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at www.viacom.com.]]> www.xfire.com 1338 http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_jobs#1338

MTV/Xfire is looking for an experienced, extremely smart software engineer who gets things done. We have a small but extremely talented group of engineers. You must not only be able to learn from them, but also to teach us a thing or two. You must be passionate about video games. For this specific role, we are looking for someone to help build our server-side infrastructure. In particular, building new scripts, servers, and configuring machines to handle the vast amount of data that our users send to us.

extremely smart

self-motivated

passionate about video games

Creative

Able to write code for a compiler and for your co-workers

Knowledgeable about client/server systems

Knowledge of high level programming in C++, especially with the STL

knowledgeable about Linux

knowledgeable about scripting languages

motivated to make things better. Everyone wants to write new code; we need someone who can also improve old code.

The following are plusses:

• knowledge about web site infrastructure
• knowledge of asynchronous (aka event-driven) programming
• knowledge of Perl, PHP, or other interesting languages
• knowledge about web site infrastructure

]]> Menlo Park CA US Please email jobs@xfire.com with #1338 - Engineer in the subject line of your email. Xfire, Inc. is the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world. Xfire helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also a server browser, IM, and file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has 6 million members in more than 100 countries. Xfire is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NEA, and Granite Global Ventures. Xfire is supported by advertisers and marketers trying to reach the 18-34 male audience.
ABOUT MTV NETWORKS
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 100 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these brands are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 90 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
ABOUT VIACOM
Viacom is one of the leading global entertainment content companies, with prominent and respected brands in focused demographics. Offering programming and content for television, motion pictures and digital platforms, Viacom's world-class brands include MTV Networks (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, Spike TV, TV Land, Logo and more than 100 networks around the world), BET, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG and Famous Music. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at www.viacom.com.]]> www.xfire.com 008 http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_jobs#008

Help implement a new database system, integrating with our existing database architecture and entirely new designs

Oversee and maintain a database environment for some of Xfire's gaming sites

Help guarantee 24/7 availability & data reliability

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You must love videogames!

Expert MySQL skills are a must

Ability to quickly learn existing systems, and then extend them

Experience designing for extreme user loads (Xfire has 5,000,000+ members)

Able to work hand-in-hand with engineers and non-engineers alike

You solve problems. You love puzzles, tests, and challenges. You get them solved quickly and elegantly.

<]]> Menlo Park CA US Please email jobs@xfire.com with Database Engineer - Job Code 008 as the title of your email. Xfire, Inc. is the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world. Xfire helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also a server browser, IM, and file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has 6 million members in more than 100 countries. Xfire is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NEA, and Granite Global Ventures. Xfire is supported by advertisers and marketers trying to reach the 18-34 male audience.
ABOUT MTV NETWORKS
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 100 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these brands are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 90 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
ABOUT VIACOM
Viacom is one of the leading global entertainment content companies, with prominent and respected brands in focused demographics. Offering programming and content for television, motion pictures and digital platforms, Viacom's world-class brands include MTV Networks (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, Spike TV, TV Land, Logo and more than 100 networks around the world), BET, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG and Famous Music. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at www.viacom.com.]]> www.xfire.com 010 http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_jobs#010

Manage the ad creation process for various Xfire promotional campaigns

Enter and manage advertising campaign in the Xfire ad system

Managing and forecasting Xfire ad inventory

Manage relationship with sales ad operations

Monitoring and reporting on progress of live campaigns

Preparing campaign reports

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Highly Self-motivated

Passion for video gaming

Attention to details

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Aptitude for quantitative analysis

BS/BA

Plus: Hard core online gamer

Plus: Experience in the video gaming industry

Plus: Experience in online marketing, community management, grassroots marketing

<]]> Menlo Park CA US Please email jobs@xfire.com with Marketing Associate - Job Code 010 as the title of your email. Xfire, Inc. is the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world. Xfire helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also a server browser, IM, and file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has 6 million members in more than 100 countries. Xfire is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NEA, and Granite Global Ventures. Xfire is supported by advertisers and marketers trying to reach the 18-34 male audience.
ABOUT MTV NETWORKS
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 100 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these brands are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 90 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
ABOUT VIACOM
Viacom is one of the leading global entertainment content companies, with prominent and respected brands in focused demographics. Offering programming and content for television, motion pictures and digital platforms, Viacom's world-class brands include MTV Networks (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, Spike TV, TV Land, Logo and more than 100 networks around the world), BET, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG and Famous Music. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at www.viacom.com.]]> www.xfire.com