[Remote] QA Engineer Specialist
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Agency is seeking a QA Engineer Specialist with a strong background in software and quality assurance. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining test plans and frameworks, executing testing scenarios, and enhancing QA practices across the company.
Responsibilities
- Perform a gap analysis of the current quality posture vs the expected one on teams across the company
- Deliver plan to address the identified gap, such as writing functional test cases, implementing functional test automation, load and stress tests, etc
- Execute the plan, helping each service raise to the desired level of QA maturity
- Design, develop, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and testing frameworks for both manual and automated testing.
- Execute complex manual testing scenarios and develop automation scripts where feasible to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Proactively identify, log, and track bugs and issues using Jira and observability tools, ensuring prompt and effective resolution.
- Offer input on product requirements and feature designs to engineering and product teams to enhance testability and reliability.
- Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and testing methodologies to keep our QA practices up-to-date and aligned with industry standards.
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software and quality assurance, with a demonstrated track record in manual and automated testing within complex, high-traffic systems.
- Proficiency in project management tools like Jira and familiarity with Agile methodologies.
- Strong understanding and experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Expertise in both manual and automated test frameworks, and experience with automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar.
- A quality-driven mindset with a passion for improving processes, preventing defects, and enhancing overall system reliability.
- Deep understanding of cloud deployments, release management, environment management, and proven experience optimizing production deployments.
- Experience developing and testing with these technologies is a plus: Frontend using React, Backend using Python Web Frameworks (Flask, Django, FastAPI, etc.), Data Management Systems (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.), Cloud Deployment using Kubernetes (with observability).
Benefits
- Health insurance
- PTO
Company Overview
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