Tag Archives: Senior Software Test Engineer
Make future history
June 17, 2010… it, the positions are here with us, at Microtask.
Right now we are scouring the earth for a Senior Software Test Engineer, a Delivery Project Manager and an experienced Software Engineer to join our rapidly expanding team. Working with a committed team of industry leaders, our new recruits will help develop our product and customer projects. We are looking for goal-driven, articulate and enthusiastic people, who are personable and positive. The roles will be based in our …
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crowdsourcing, Delivery Project Manager, Experienced Software Engineer, jobs available, Senior Software Test Engineer | 1 CommentTesting Times
March 2, 2011… point, everyone experiences that “cry-with-frustration” feeling you get from badly designed software: websites with no “Home” button, buggy videogames, apps that seem to be made for cinema-sized screens instead of mobiles. As every software engineer knows, all programs are supposed to go through “beta” or user testing before they get released. The trouble is that testing is often rushed, done “in house” (rather than by real users) or just ignored. With mobile apps, testing …
Android, apple, BlackBerry, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, Handhelds, iPhone, Tony Soprano, utest, waze | 1 CommentHS Talkoot: Microtask to the rescue of Finnish media history
September 5, 2011… All pages have been digitized in advance through automatic text recognition. Unfortunately, OCR software makes lots of mistakes when reading text that has deteriorated or is typed in old fonts. This is where human intelligence (especially our innate ability to understand signs) is needed to set the record straight.
Gamifying media
If this sounds noble but boring, don’t panic. That’s not how we run things. HS Talkoot is structured as an online game. Once you’ve logged in using …
The secrets of Digitalkoot: Lessons learned crowdsourcing data entry to 50,000 people (for free)
June 16, 2011… called Digitalkoot. Being the first Microtask-powered public service, Digitalkoot was a huge test for our crowdsourcing platform, the use of volunteers to complete microtasks, our ideas about gamification and rewards, and basically us as decent, upstanding citizens.
As we have already mentioned, with over 50,000 volunteers so far, the project has been a great success (which is nice for us, because it means we can start sleeping at night again). We have learned so much from this …
VizWiz: what the crowd sees is what you get
June 9, 2011… fact that OCR scanners can’t read old and/or handwritten documents. Similarly speech-recognition software, which converts sound to text, often fails to understand strong accents and multiple voices (ideal if you just happen to be a lonely elocution expert). Bigham’s solution is to backup the “fragile” technology with help from online workers (or as he calls them “always-available human-powered services technology”).
To test the theory Bigham and his team created VizWiz, an …
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