Quality Engineer

Many of us in our New York, Boston and Toronto offices are here because we believe in the mission that we can build world class platform that can help our clients and freelancers, and change the future of work. If you are the type of person who likes to get your hands dirty but also wants to participate in architecture and product strategy conversation, our Client is a very unique startup mode like experience with tremendous growth opportunities.

About Technology

We developed progressive web application based on our “Single Page App” Architecture, aka “SPA”, on top of domain driven API-first platform. Our backend is Java based Microservice distributed architecture.

Our primary stacks are:

Architecture – API Driven Microservice
Frontend : React, Redux, Swagger
Backend: Java 8, Spring boot, Netflix OSS, Solr, Kafka, Zuul
Build: Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory, Gradle
Infrastructure: AWS, Consul, Nomad, TerraForm, Vault, Salt, MySQL/RDS
Web Automation: WebdriverIO, Selenium, Cucumber
Mobile Automation: Swift, Java, FastLane, Espresso
API Automation: Custom framework built using Python, Tests written in JSON

What we are looking for?

The Quality Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated individual who will be responsible for engineering the quality of all features that are developed within their mobile scrum team, while being exposed to all facets of QA: everything from functional testing, to automated testing, to load and performance testing. The pace is fast, but comfortable, and is suited for individuals who thrive off of moving quickly without compromising effectiveness.

We are trying to push the boundaries for automation and are interested in people who are passionate about automation and all of its possibilities.

Responsibilities:

The Quality Engineer (QE) will work with our scrum team on a broad range of development projects primarily for our mobile apps (iOS & Android). The QE is expected to develop a deep understanding of the team's area of focus to help facilitate the following activities:

Create test plans and test cases to ensure the highest level of quality for our web application
Discover, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution and release
Work with various teams (Product, Tech Ops, Engineering) to ensure success of the development life cycle and release management.
Expand our end-to-end and API automated test coverage
Apply the best principles to automated test creation and architecture
Provide input/feedback to improve our testing frameworks
Help research and implement potential tools and methodologies in order to improve the quality engineering process

Qualifications:

True passion for trying to break software, find bugs, understand their root cause and how that forces it to adapt and become something new
Experience grey or white box testing mobile applications and a love for exploring the functionality
Strong knowledge with mobile automation tools such as Appium or Espresso
Strong knowledge of OOP Principles and proven experience across several types of languages such as Java, Javascript, Swift
Experience with API testing, testing methodologies and tools such as Postman, Runscope and other REST API clients
Well-organized team player with spectacular communication skills, both written and oral
Experience working in agile environments
Exposure to project management tools + QE tools (e.g. JIRA/Confluence, TestRail/Zephyr, Cucumber, Selenium/WebDriver.io, Git, or any similar tools/frameworks)

Preferred Qualifications(but not required):

Solid knowledge of Python
Experience with a microservice architecture