I'm currently filling a role as the Development Manager in the Data  
Warehouse Group at nabCapital.  It's a fancy name for what is  
essentially an agile coaching position.  I've been busily ramping up  
the development team of recent, as we're embarking on a reasonably  
long programme of work.

Development in the the group is largely made of of ETL jobs built  
using specialist commercial tools.  Imagine slurping up data from a  
source like a flat file or a database, then massaging it in some way  
and spitting it out into another database and you're pretty much  
there.  We have dozens and dozens of these things.

We've just recently starting trying to ramp up the level of automated  
testing around these jobs.  It takes a long time to make sure they're  
running right, and we want to improve our quality too.  A scripting  
language like Ruby seemed perfect for the job, so we've dipped our toe  
in the water and are pretty happy so far.  Mike Williams has been  
charged with getting us up and running in this space.

It's interesting to me to hear stories about big corporates taking up  
usage of Ruby in some fashion, so I wanted to let the group know about  
it.  I'll wander along to one of the melbourne ruby meetings sometime  
soon and talk more about it.  However, I'm also looking for more  
people, so this is a job ad to some extent as well.

As the development team ramps up, so too do we want to ramp up the  
testing team.  We're looking for more people with Ruby skills and an  
interest in testing to help out.  There's lots of DB and text file  
interaction in various formats - flat file, XML, CSV etc.  I'd  
ultimately like rspec tests for all of our ETL jobs running in a  
continuous integration server.

If anyone thinks they might be interested, please contact me off list.

Cheers,